Historical Essays, Volume 2Macmillan, 1873 - 339 pages |
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... noble , task , and it calls for an historical genius of the highest order . It is no small matter to group and harmonize together the contemporary stories of endless states all full of life and energy ; at once to avoid wearying the ...
... noble , task , and it calls for an historical genius of the highest order . It is no small matter to group and harmonize together the contemporary stories of endless states all full of life and energy ; at once to avoid wearying the ...
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... noble spirits who won the victory against him ? Cold indeed must be the heart which could refuse to beat in concert with that burst of zeal for Church and freedom which scattered the chivalry of Swabia before the charge of the Company ...
... noble spirits who won the victory against him ? Cold indeed must be the heart which could refuse to beat in concert with that burst of zeal for Church and freedom which scattered the chivalry of Swabia before the charge of the Company ...
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... noble Frederick threw himself honestly into her interests , and ruled her as her native sove- reign . But his line died out in a succession of faineants , and their foreign kinsman presently grasped the opportunity of joining the island ...
... noble Frederick threw himself honestly into her interests , and ruled her as her native sove- reign . But his line died out in a succession of faineants , and their foreign kinsman presently grasped the opportunity of joining the island ...
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... noble fate . The better days of Aratos wrought more of lasting good than the gon- faloniership of Soderini ; but the devotion of ' lily to lily , ' unreasonable and unrequited as it was , never betrayed Flo- rence into such deeds of ...
... noble fate . The better days of Aratos wrought more of lasting good than the gon- faloniership of Soderini ; but the devotion of ' lily to lily , ' unreasonable and unrequited as it was , never betrayed Flo- rence into such deeds of ...
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... noble might boast of his palace , but in most Italian cities the patrician mansion was not a palace , but a fortress , fitted and accustomed to defend itself alike against rival nobles and against the power of the com- monwealth itself ...
... noble might boast of his palace , but in most Italian cities the patrician mansion was not a palace , but a fortress , fitted and accustomed to defend itself alike against rival nobles and against the power of the com- monwealth itself ...
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