Memoirs of the Baroness D'Oberkirch, Countess de Montbrison, Том 1Colburn and Company, 1852 |
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... obliged to relate things alike repugnant to my feelings and my principles , but which portray the epoch in which we live . I will , however , avoid low gossip , not possessing a talent for that style of writing which gives such things B ...
... obliged to relate things alike repugnant to my feelings and my principles , but which portray the epoch in which we live . I will , however , avoid low gossip , not possessing a talent for that style of writing which gives such things B ...
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... obliged to record , believing them to be characteristic of the period . Must not the painter use the tint which will best portray his subject ? Now that I have warned my readers , if I should have any , of what they are to expect in ...
... obliged to record , believing them to be characteristic of the period . Must not the painter use the tint which will best portray his subject ? Now that I have warned my readers , if I should have any , of what they are to expect in ...
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... obliged to await in fearful expectation those convulsions which already announce them- selves , without entertaining a hope of being useful to my country , to my sovereigns , who have over- whelmed me with kindness , to the cause of my ...
... obliged to await in fearful expectation those convulsions which already announce them- selves , without entertaining a hope of being useful to my country , to my sovereigns , who have over- whelmed me with kindness , to the cause of my ...
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... obliged to tolerate what I could not proscribe . At that time my exaggerated fervour - I borrow a phrase from the Roman Catholic devotees , not being able to find one more expressive - would not allow me to make any concession . I ...
... obliged to tolerate what I could not proscribe . At that time my exaggerated fervour - I borrow a phrase from the Roman Catholic devotees , not being able to find one more expressive - would not allow me to make any concession . I ...
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... oblige ( nobility ennobles ) . Genealogists carry back our family to the time of Louis le Débonnaire , and to one of his generals named , as they say , Waldner , who signalized him- self in 814 in the war against Kartwin , mayor of the ...
... oblige ( nobility ennobles ) . Genealogists carry back our family to the time of Louis le Débonnaire , and to one of his generals named , as they say , Waldner , who signalized him- self in 814 in the war against Kartwin , mayor of the ...
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