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Page 90
The late exploits of Lord Wellington have effaced the follies of Cintra . He has ,
indeed , done wonders ; he has perhaps changed the character of a nation ,
reconciled rival superstitions , and baffled an enemy who never retreated before
his ...
The late exploits of Lord Wellington have effaced the follies of Cintra . He has ,
indeed , done wonders ; he has perhaps changed the character of a nation ,
reconciled rival superstitions , and baffled an enemy who never retreated before
his ...
Page 122
The difficulties of travelling in Turkey have been much exag . gerated , or rather
have considerably diminished of late years . The Mussulmans have been beaten
into a kind of sullen civility , very comfortable to voyagers . It is bazardous to say ...
The difficulties of travelling in Turkey have been much exag . gerated , or rather
have considerably diminished of late years . The Mussulmans have been beaten
into a kind of sullen civility , very comfortable to voyagers . It is bazardous to say ...
Page 306
... such a man might have found more core sideration than he has met with from
the priest of Certaldo , and from a late English traveller , who strikes off his portrait
as an odious , contemptible , licentious writer , whose impure remains should be
...
... such a man might have found more core sideration than he has met with from
the priest of Certaldo , and from a late English traveller , who strikes off his portrait
as an odious , contemptible , licentious writer , whose impure remains should be
...
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