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... Europe as an important part of education . from which affrighted nature recoils , are their The historians of whom we have been speak- chosen and almost sole examples for the in- ing had been members of large communities , struction of ...
... Europe as an important part of education . from which affrighted nature recoils , are their The historians of whom we have been speak- chosen and almost sole examples for the in- ing had been members of large communities , struction of ...
Page 60
... Europe , as it had commenced among the Greeks , in romance . Froissart was our Herodotus . Italy was to Europe what Athens was to Greece . In Italy , therefore , a more ac- curate and manly mode of narration was early introduced ...
... Europe , as it had commenced among the Greeks , in romance . Froissart was our Herodotus . Italy was to Europe what Athens was to Greece . In Italy , therefore , a more ac- curate and manly mode of narration was early introduced ...
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... Europe a thou- sand years of barbarism to escape the fate of China . At length the terrible purification was ac complished ; and the second civilization of mankind commenced , under circumstances which afforded a strong security that it ...
... Europe a thou- sand years of barbarism to escape the fate of China . At length the terrible purification was ac complished ; and the second civilization of mankind commenced , under circumstances which afforded a strong security that it ...
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... Europe , during the middle ages , there existed restraints on the royal authority , fun- Let us overleap two or three hundred years , and contemplate Europe at the commencement of the eighteenth century . Every free consti- tution ...
... Europe , during the middle ages , there existed restraints on the royal authority , fun- Let us overleap two or three hundred years , and contemplate Europe at the commencement of the eighteenth century . Every free consti- tution ...
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... Europe : but all have failed , except those in which the regular army has been induced to join the disaffected ... European kingdoms of this descrip- ion , there were representative assemblies . But it was not necessary that those ...
... Europe : but all have failed , except those in which the regular army has been induced to join the disaffected ... European kingdoms of this descrip- ion , there were representative assemblies . But it was not necessary that those ...
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