Life of DantonLongmans, Green, and Company, 1899 - 355 pages |
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... Natural History ' became so familiar to him that he could say whole pages by heart . Corneille was his favourite poet , and he also read Tasso , Ariosto , ( ATTAINMENTS 7 and Dante . He even wrote poetry himself 6 LIFE OF DANTON.
... Natural History ' became so familiar to him that he could say whole pages by heart . Corneille was his favourite poet , and he also read Tasso , Ariosto , ( ATTAINMENTS 7 and Dante . He even wrote poetry himself 6 LIFE OF DANTON.
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... nature , as at school he was by name , Anti - Superior , ' pleading by choice for the poor against the rich , and not seldom returning his fees . 6 But his profession was not one favourable to in- dependence and was distasteful to him ...
... nature , as at school he was by name , Anti - Superior , ' pleading by choice for the poor against the rich , and not seldom returning his fees . 6 But his profession was not one favourable to in- dependence and was distasteful to him ...
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... nature . herself against man's wickedness and folly , might have endured still longer . The words in which an English poet consecrated Carnage ' a Frenchman might have more truly used of ' Famine , ' and hailed it as God's daughter ...
... nature . herself against man's wickedness and folly , might have endured still longer . The words in which an English poet consecrated Carnage ' a Frenchman might have more truly used of ' Famine , ' and hailed it as God's daughter ...
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... natural powers fre- quently , and that it was owing to constant experience of his persuasive speech that the district of the Cor- deliers elected him as its president in the spring of 1789. That year might have been christened the Year ...
... natural powers fre- quently , and that it was owing to constant experience of his persuasive speech that the district of the Cor- deliers elected him as its president in the spring of 1789. That year might have been christened the Year ...
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... natural in such feverish moments by making Danton say he had spoken dans la tribune du département , ' but there can be no real doubt of the part played by his friend on this memorable day . Lafayette ludicrously pretends that he was in ...
... natural in such feverish moments by making Danton say he had spoken dans la tribune du département , ' but there can be no real doubt of the part played by his friend on this memorable day . Lafayette ludicrously pretends that he was in ...
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