Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Nonesuch Press, 1948 - 807 pagina's |
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Pagina 145
... 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 French ...
... 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 French ...
Pagina 366
... FRENCH REVOLUTION ( THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON , VOL . 1 , 1828 ) BUONAPARTE was not quite twenty years old , when the French Revolution broke out in 1789. From the time of his being employed at the siege of Toulon and in the war of Italy ...
... FRENCH REVOLUTION ( THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON , VOL . 1 , 1828 ) BUONAPARTE was not quite twenty years old , when the French Revolution broke out in 1789. From the time of his being employed at the siege of Toulon and in the war of Italy ...
Pagina 445
... French to all verbal professions of wisdom or virtue ; and its existence can only be accounted for from that astonishing and tyrannical predominance which words exercise over things in the mind of every Frenchman . The École des Femmes ...
... French to all verbal professions of wisdom or virtue ; and its existence can only be accounted for from that astonishing and tyrannical predominance which words exercise over things in the mind of every Frenchman . The École des Femmes ...
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On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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