The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 223A. Constable, 1916 |
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... ment of friends by a statement of the unbroken essential tradition of France . The importance of cultivating an intellectual and moral unity in the thought of France was insisted upon by Renan on his entrance into the French Academy so ...
... ment of friends by a statement of the unbroken essential tradition of France . The importance of cultivating an intellectual and moral unity in the thought of France was insisted upon by Renan on his entrance into the French Academy so ...
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... ment , soit par une chute , soit par la perte de la partie ou de ' l'assaut engagé . Il en va de même dans la pratique des affaires : ' une erreur d'exécution entraîne pour son auteur un préjudice ' direct . ' It is not too much to say ...
... ment , soit par une chute , soit par la perte de la partie ou de ' l'assaut engagé . Il en va de même dans la pratique des affaires : ' une erreur d'exécution entraîne pour son auteur un préjudice ' direct . ' It is not too much to say ...
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... ment of their intelligence and their habit of dealing rather with general principles than with individual cases . This faculty of intelligence has had a great deal to do with the blessed unanimity of French opinion , a unanimity of the ...
... ment of their intelligence and their habit of dealing rather with general principles than with individual cases . This faculty of intelligence has had a great deal to do with the blessed unanimity of French opinion , a unanimity of the ...
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... ment was attempting to allay a mass of accumulated suffering and discontent by the repressive legislation embodied in the ' Six Acts . ' In both countries the tide of liberalism was , consequently , rising fast , and with the idea of ...
... ment was attempting to allay a mass of accumulated suffering and discontent by the repressive legislation embodied in the ' Six Acts . ' In both countries the tide of liberalism was , consequently , rising fast , and with the idea of ...
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... ment which had hitherto been lacking in these characteristics . With the events of the Greek insurrection of 1821-1829 it is unnecessary to deal in detail . They are narrated in innumer- able text - books , and , in a well - known ...
... ment which had hitherto been lacking in these characteristics . With the events of the Greek insurrection of 1821-1829 it is unnecessary to deal in detail . They are narrated in innumer- able text - books , and , in a well - known ...
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