Essays Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3William Blackwood, 1850 |
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... greatest writers of the age have devoted their talents to the support of their principles . Sir Walter Scott and Chateaubriand are beyond all question , and by the consent of both nations , at the head of the literature of France and ...
... greatest writers of the age have devoted their talents to the support of their principles . Sir Walter Scott and Chateaubriand are beyond all question , and by the consent of both nations , at the head of the literature of France and ...
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... greatest mystery of the whole . Whence comes the spark which we call existence , and in what obscurity is it to be extinguished ? The Eternal has placed our birth and our death under the form of two veiled phantoms , at the two ...
... greatest mystery of the whole . Whence comes the spark which we call existence , and in what obscurity is it to be extinguished ? The Eternal has placed our birth and our death under the form of two veiled phantoms , at the two ...
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... be observed in the principles of the greatest writers of the world on religion ; and while the inferior followers of their different tenets branch out into endless divisions , and indulge in sectarian 16 CHATEAUBRIAND .
... be observed in the principles of the greatest writers of the world on religion ; and while the inferior followers of their different tenets branch out into endless divisions , and indulge in sectarian 16 CHATEAUBRIAND .
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... greatest of her philosophers , is renewed every day at the couch where the humblest Christian expires . " At length the supreme moment arrives : one sacrament has opened the gates of the world , another is about to close them ; religion ...
... greatest of her philosophers , is renewed every day at the couch where the humblest Christian expires . " At length the supreme moment arrives : one sacrament has opened the gates of the world , another is about to close them ; religion ...
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... greatest living writer , should hardly be known except by name to the great body of readers in this country . His greatest work , that on which his fame will 40 CHATEAUBRIAND .
... greatest living writer , should hardly be known except by name to the great body of readers in this country . His greatest work , that on which his fame will 40 CHATEAUBRIAND .
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