Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... France had been incessantly directed to undermine the principles of religion. The days of Pascal and Fenelon, of Saurin and Bourdaloue, of Bossuet and Massillon, had passed away ; the splendid talent of the seventeenth century was no ...
... France had been incessantly directed to undermine the principles of religion. The days of Pascal and Fenelon, of Saurin and Bourdaloue, of Bossuet and Massillon, had passed away ; the splendid talent of the seventeenth century was no ...
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... France and England may well be proud ; shining , as they already do , through the clouds and the passions of a fleeting existence , they are destined soon to illuminate the world with a purer lustre , and ascend CHATEAUBRIAND . 5.
... France and England may well be proud ; shining , as they already do , through the clouds and the passions of a fleeting existence , they are destined soon to illuminate the world with a purer lustre , and ascend CHATEAUBRIAND . 5.
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... France , invaded the precincts of religion as well as the bulwarks of the state : the throne and the altar , the re- straints of this world and the next , as is ever the case , crumbled together . For half a century , all the genius of ...
... France , invaded the precincts of religion as well as the bulwarks of the state : the throne and the altar , the re- straints of this world and the next , as is ever the case , crumbled together . For half a century , all the genius of ...
Sivu 8
... France ; the dead without a blessing were thrust into vast charnel - houses ; marriage was contracted before a civil magistrate ; and infancy , untaught to pronounce the name of God , longed only for the period when the passions and ...
... France ; the dead without a blessing were thrust into vast charnel - houses ; marriage was contracted before a civil magistrate ; and infancy , untaught to pronounce the name of God , longed only for the period when the passions and ...
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... France . Nature appears to take a pleasure in thus recalling the ideas of civilisation in a country where that civilisation first arose , and barbarism has now resumed its sway . It was eleven o'clock CHATEAUBRIAND . 37.
... France . Nature appears to take a pleasure in thus recalling the ideas of civilisation in a country where that civilisation first arose , and barbarism has now resumed its sway . It was eleven o'clock CHATEAUBRIAND . 37.
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Sivu 350 - Nearer to the beach, the tide rippled onward in waves of sparkling silver, that imperceptibly, yet rapidly, gained upon the sand. With a mind employed in admiration of the romantic scene, or perhaps on some more agitating topic, Miss Wardour advanced in silence by her father's side, whose recently offended dignity did not stoop to open any conversation. Following the windings of the beach, they passed one projecting point or headland of rock after another, and now found themselves under a huge and...