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Miraculous Prophecies and Predictions of Eminent Men, from the Earliest ... - Page 228
1821 - 254 pages
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Life of Oliver Goldsmith

Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 pages
...which are all created by the court, and the presidents of which can only act by immediate direction, presume even to mention privileges and freedom, who...humility ; when this is considered, I cannot help fancymg that the genius of Freedom has entered that kingdom in disguise. If they have but three weak...
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The Citizen of the World, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - Harpsichord - 1891 - 336 pages
...of which are all created by the court, the presidents of which can act only by immediate direction) presume even to mention privileges and freedom, who,...and the country will certainly once more be free. When I compare the figure which the Dutch make in Europe with that they assume in Asia, I am struck...
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National Life and Character: A Forecast

Charles Henry Pearson - Moral conditions - 1893 - 376 pages
...by others." — Wraxall's Historical Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 78. 2 Chesterfield's Letters to his Son. "if they have but three weak monarchs more successively on the throne." It needed, as we now know, a good deal less than the " three weak monarchs." Goldsmith, who seems instinctively...
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Oliver Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village

Oliver Goldsmith - 1894 - 100 pages
...much moved by the tyrannical and luxurious lives of the French kings, and had shrewdly predicted: " If they have but three weak monarchs more successively...and the country will certainly once more be free." NOTES ON THE DESERTED VILLAGE. NB — Bead the "Introduction to Notes," p. 63, and the note on poetical...
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The Theosophist, Volume 19

Theosophy - 1898 - 1014 pages
...which are all created by the court, the presidents of which can only act by intermediate direction) presume even to mention privileges and freedom who,...has entered that kingdom in disguise. If they have bnt three weak monarchs inoi'e, successively on the throne, the mask will be laid aside, and the country...
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The Letters of Thomas Gray: Including the Correspondence of Gray ..., Volume 2

Thomas Gray - 1904 - 362 pages
...of which are all created by the court, the president of which can act only by immediate direction) presume even to mention privileges and freedom, who,...humility ; when this is considered, I cannot help thinking that the genius of freedom has entered that kingdom in disguise. If they have but three weak...
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Persian and Chinese Letters

Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Authors, French - 1901 - 458 pages
...of which are all created by the court, the presidents of \vhich can act only by immediate direction) presume even to mention privileges and freedom, who,...and the country will certainly once more be free. When I compare the figure which the Dutch make in Europe with that they assume in Asia, I am struck...
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Persian and Chinese Letters

Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Authors, French - 1901 - 464 pages
...considered, I cannot help fancying that the genius of-freedom has entered that kingdom_ia_disguise. If they have but three weak monarchs more successively...and the country will certainly once more be free. When I compare the figure which the Dutch make in Europe with that they assume in Asia, I am struck...
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Irving's Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography

Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 432 pages
...court, and the presidents of which can only act by immediate direction, presume even to mention 15 privileges and freedom, who till of late received...weak monarchs more successively on the throne, the 20 mask will be laid aside, and the country will certainly once more be free." Events have testified...
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Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography

Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1903 - 446 pages
...which are all created by the court, and the presidents of which can only act by immediate direction, presume even to mention privileges and freedom, who...the genius of Freedom has entered that kingdom in 1 In The Present State of Polite Learning, ch. vii. 3 A royal palace, eleven miles west-southwest of...
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