The French Librarian: Or Literary Guide, Pointing Out the Best Works of the Principal Writers of France, in Every Branch of Literature; with Criticisms, Personal Anecdotes, and Bibliographical Notices; Preceded by a Sketch of the Progress of French Literature |
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... mind might be influenced by national vanity , influenced by national pres judices , or incapacitated by want of judgment and information ? To have looked for materials among French writers alone , would have proved a comparatively easy ...
... mind might be influenced by national vanity , influenced by national pres judices , or incapacitated by want of judgment and information ? To have looked for materials among French writers alone , would have proved a comparatively easy ...
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... mind , and a more perfect knowledge of its nature and progress than may be obtained by any other means . * As I only give an account of the books which appeared good , both to myself and to the au- thors quoted as authorities it cannot ...
... mind , and a more perfect knowledge of its nature and progress than may be obtained by any other means . * As I only give an account of the books which appeared good , both to myself and to the au- thors quoted as authorities it cannot ...
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... mind . Europe then presented a spectacle well deserving our serious attention . Spain , lately relieved from the yoke of the Saracens , owed to the courage and enterprising spirit of Colum- bus , the discovery of a new world . A love of ...
... mind . Europe then presented a spectacle well deserving our serious attention . Spain , lately relieved from the yoke of the Saracens , owed to the courage and enterprising spirit of Colum- bus , the discovery of a new world . A love of ...
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... mind one of the most brilliant epochs of the literary history of his country . At this period , France , notwithstanding her political disasters , began to assume a rank a- mong the literary nations of Europe . Her lan- guage was as yet ...
... mind one of the most brilliant epochs of the literary history of his country . At this period , France , notwithstanding her political disasters , began to assume a rank a- mong the literary nations of Europe . Her lan- guage was as yet ...
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... , to cramp the genius of a people whose progressive minds ill brook the shackles laid on them by the standing orders of an Academy . That this was the case in t France seems now to be generally admitted . One of OF FRENCH LITERATURE . xix.
... , to cramp the genius of a people whose progressive minds ill brook the shackles laid on them by the standing orders of an Academy . That this was the case in t France seems now to be generally admitted . One of OF FRENCH LITERATURE . xix.
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