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... Madame de Staël - Pilgrimage of filial piety - Struggle with his father - Compulsory residence at Charolles - Mr . Smith , of the " Morning Chronicle " -Herder - Hamann - Visit to England- " In- troduction to Herder's Philosophy of the ...
... Madame de Staël - Pilgrimage of filial piety - Struggle with his father - Compulsory residence at Charolles - Mr . Smith , of the " Morning Chronicle " -Herder - Hamann - Visit to England- " In- troduction to Herder's Philosophy of the ...
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... Madame de Staël to him . When he came home from the plough she would sometimes appear on the gallery and , assum- ing the air of a tragedy - queen , begin to recite Racine's " Athalie , " expecting him to take up the role of Joas . At ...
... Madame de Staël to him . When he came home from the plough she would sometimes appear on the gallery and , assum- ing the air of a tragedy - queen , begin to recite Racine's " Athalie , " expecting him to take up the role of Joas . At ...
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... Madame de Staël aroused his conscience to a sense of the servitude of the Napoleonic régime . However , he did not readily give up his hero , but rather sought to conciliate his reli- gious admiration of Napoleon with his belief in ...
... Madame de Staël aroused his conscience to a sense of the servitude of the Napoleonic régime . However , he did not readily give up his hero , but rather sought to conciliate his reli- gious admiration of Napoleon with his belief in ...
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... Madame de Staël were the literary powers of the day . The first , under the guise of free thought and poetic colouring , sought to enchant France with the past ; the latter pointed her to liberty and the future . Although Chateaubriand ...
... Madame de Staël were the literary powers of the day . The first , under the guise of free thought and poetic colouring , sought to enchant France with the past ; the latter pointed her to liberty and the future . Although Chateaubriand ...
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... Madame de Staël , and who was just then attaining the zenith of his popularity as the leader of the Liberal opposition in the Chamber of Deputies , and the defender of constitutional liberty in France . Later on in the same year ...
... Madame de Staël , and who was just then attaining the zenith of his popularity as the leader of the Liberal opposition in the Chamber of Deputies , and the defender of constitutional liberty in France . Later on in the same year ...
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