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... gone abroad that this young King will prove considerable . Here at last has a Lover of Philosophy got upon the throne , and great philan- thropies and magnanimities are to be expected , think rash edi- tors and idle mankind . Rash ...
... gone abroad that this young King will prove considerable . Here at last has a Lover of Philosophy got upon the throne , and great philan- thropies and magnanimities are to be expected , think rash edi- tors and idle mankind . Rash ...
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... gone before ; perhaps that also might be legible , if in those opaque bead - rolls which are called Histories of Fried- rich any thing human could with certainty be read ! He flies much about from place to place ; now at Potsdam , now ...
... gone before ; perhaps that also might be legible , if in those opaque bead - rolls which are called Histories of Fried- rich any thing human could with certainty be read ! He flies much about from place to place ; now at Potsdam , now ...
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... gone.22 Old friendship , it would seem , is without weight in public ap- pointments here : old friends are somewhat astonished to find this friend of theirs a King every inch ! To old comrades , if they were useless , much more if they ...
... gone.22 Old friendship , it would seem , is without weight in public ap- pointments here : old friends are somewhat astonished to find this friend of theirs a King every inch ! To old comrades , if they were useless , much more if they ...
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... gone to great lengths since Friedrich's time , and the leading spirits do not now adore it , but yawn over it , or worse , which changes to us the then aspect of Friedrich , and his epoch and his aspira- 30 Helden - Geschichte , i ...
... gone to great lengths since Friedrich's time , and the leading spirits do not now adore it , but yawn over it , or worse , which changes to us the then aspect of Friedrich , and his epoch and his aspira- 30 Helden - Geschichte , i ...
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... gone deep into them . Instead of manna , this long while back they have been living on mouldy corrupt meats sweetened by sugar - of - lead ; or perhaps , like Voltaire , a few individuals prefer hunger as the cleaner alternative ; and ...
... gone deep into them . Instead of manna , this long while back they have been living on mouldy corrupt meats sweetened by sugar - of - lead ; or perhaps , like Voltaire , a few individuals prefer hunger as the cleaner alternative ; and ...
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Page 119 - ... it is cursorily, and in the business way only ; and there is not here or elsewhere the least pleading — a man, you would say, considerably indifferent to our belief on that head : his eye set on the practical merely. "Just Rights? What are rights, never so just, which you cannot make valid ! The world is full of such. If you have rights and can assert them into facts, do it ; that is worth doing...
Page 34 - Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee.
Page 303 - This picture can not fail to be shocking to the humane reader, especially when he is informed that, while those miserable objects cried in vain for assistance, and actually perished for want of proper attendance, every ship of war in the fleet could have spared a couple of surgeons for their relief, and many young gentlemen of that profession solicited their captains in vain for leave to go and administer help to the sick and wounded.
Page 110 - Opportunity in this manner, and obeyed the new omen. To seize such an opportunity, and perilously mount upon it, was the part of a young magnanimous King, less sensible to the perils, and more to the other considerations, than one older would have been.