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Page 136
... spirit of the Action française which , although it never managed to come into actual power , in the early decades of the twentieth century obtained a remarkable hold over the French intellect . Maurras was far from being a disciple of ...
... spirit of the Action française which , although it never managed to come into actual power , in the early decades of the twentieth century obtained a remarkable hold over the French intellect . Maurras was far from being a disciple of ...
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... spirit of his age . Many other factors , differing among themselves , will count in the final reckoning . But indeed , the comfort that the future may give is not enough for Romein . He wants to know now that he is on the right track ...
... spirit of his age . Many other factors , differing among themselves , will count in the final reckoning . But indeed , the comfort that the future may give is not enough for Romein . He wants to know now that he is on the right track ...
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... spirit of our own age , its inspiration might lend it pace and fire , and even those other- minded men whom Romein abandons to the contempt of posterity might be grateful for the light thrown if only on an aspect of the truth about the ...
... spirit of our own age , its inspiration might lend it pace and fire , and even those other- minded men whom Romein abandons to the contempt of posterity might be grateful for the light thrown if only on an aspect of the truth about the ...
Contents
II | 51 |
FRENCH HISTORIANS FOR AND AGAINST THE REVOLUTION | 87 |
MOTLEY AND HIS RISE OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC | 145 |
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