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... whole man seems to be an enigma - a gro- tesque assemblage of incongruous qualities- selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevo- ience , craft and simplicity , abject villany and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a It is ...
... whole man seems to be an enigma - a gro- tesque assemblage of incongruous qualities- selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevo- ience , craft and simplicity , abject villany and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a It is ...
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... whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state * Guicciardini , lib . i . + Dante Purgatorio , xiv . | enlist for foreign service . The laws of Lycur gus prohibited trade and manufactures . The Spartans ...
... whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state * Guicciardini , lib . i . + Dante Purgatorio , xiv . | enlist for foreign service . The laws of Lycur gus prohibited trade and manufactures . The Spartans ...
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... whole penalty of an offence in which they are not more deeply implicated than those who escape . Whether decimation be a con- venient mode of military execution , we know not : but we solemnly protest against the intro- duction of such ...
... whole penalty of an offence in which they are not more deeply implicated than those who escape . Whether decimation be a con- venient mode of military execution , we know not : but we solemnly protest against the intro- duction of such ...
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... whole Hôtel de Rambouil- Calandrino , whose mishaps , as recounted by let . To prove the whole system of this school Boccaccio , have made all Europe merry for absurd , it is only necessary to apply the test more than four centuries ...
... whole Hôtel de Rambouil- Calandrino , whose mishaps , as recounted by let . To prove the whole system of this school Boccaccio , have made all Europe merry for absurd , it is only necessary to apply the test more than four centuries ...
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... whole history of the school to which he be- longed , the rudeness and extravagance of its infancy , the propriety , the grace , the dignified good sense , the temperate splendour of its maturity . His imagination was torpid , till it ...
... whole history of the school to which he be- longed , the rudeness and extravagance of its infancy , the propriety , the grace , the dignified good sense , the temperate splendour of its maturity . His imagination was torpid , till it ...
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