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Pagina 145
The French are accused of promising more than they perform . That may be , and yet they may perform as many good - natured acts as the English , if the latter are as averse to perform as they are to promise . Even the professions of the ...
The French are accused of promising more than they perform . That may be , and yet they may perform as many good - natured acts as the English , if the latter are as averse to perform as they are to promise . Even the professions of the ...
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... but who have not sincerity enough to be hypocrites , that is , have not hearty dislike or contempt enough for anything , to give the lie to their puling professions of admiration and esteem for it . THE FRENCH REVOLUTION ( THE LIFE ...
... but who have not sincerity enough to be hypocrites , that is , have not hearty dislike or contempt enough for anything , to give the lie to their puling professions of admiration and esteem for it . THE FRENCH REVOLUTION ( THE LIFE ...
Pagina 445
This play is in one point of view invaluable , as C a lasting monument of the credulity of the French to all verbal professions of wisdom or virtue ; and its existence I can only be accounted for from that astonishing and tyrannical ...
This play is in one point of view invaluable , as C a lasting monument of the credulity of the French to all verbal professions of wisdom or virtue ; and its existence I can only be accounted for from that astonishing and tyrannical ...
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