| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 824 pages
...land given to him by the rnler of the world. This singular act of beneficence, at a moment when his mind was engaged by such mighty interests, is worthy...conqueror's caprice, dispensing at random good or evil, alternately overthrowing empires or rearing a cottage, it may be useful to record snch caprices, if... | |
| Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1845 - 566 pages
...land given to him by the ruler of the world. This singular act of beneficence, at a moment when his mind was engaged by such mighty interests, is worthy...conqueror's caprice, dispensing at random good or evil, alternately overthrowing empires or rearing a cottage, it may be useful to record such caprices, if... | |
| American periodicals - 1845 - 636 pages
...land given to him by the ruler of the world. This singular act of beneficence, at a moment when his mind was engaged by such mighty interests, is worthy...conqueror's caprice, dispensing at random good or evil, alter- , nately overthrowing empires or rearing a cottage, it may be useful to record such caprices,... | |
| Adolphe Thiers - France - 1845 - 570 pages
...land given to him by the ruler of the world. This singular act of beneficence, at a moment M-hen his mind was engaged by such mighty interests, is worthy...conqueror's caprice, dispensing at random good or evil, alternately overthrowing empires or rearing a cottage, it may be useful to record such caprices, if... | |
| 1845 - 854 pages
...to him by the ruler of the world. This singular act of beneficence, at a moment when his mind »as engaged by such mighty interests, is worthy of attention....conqueror's caprice, dispensing at random good or evil, alternately overthrowing empires or rearing a cottage, it may be useful to record such caprices, if... | |
| Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1845 - 862 pages
...the world. This nUr act of beneficence, at a moment when his mind entmged by such mighty interests, U worthy of attention. If there were nothing in it but...conqueror's caprice, dispensing at random good or evil, alternately overthrowing empires or rearing a cottage, it may be useful to record «uch caprices, if... | |
| 1847 - 412 pages
...land given to him by the celebrated Napoleon. This singular act of beneficence, at a moment when his mind was engaged by such mighty interests, is worthy...mere conqueror's caprice, dispensing at random good and evil, alternately overthrowing empires, or rearing a cottage, it may be useful to record such caprices,... | |
| 1845 - 778 pages
...land given to him by the ruler of the world. This singular uct of beneficence, at a moment when his mind was engaged by such mighty interests, is worthy...were nothing in it but a mere conqueror's caprice, dis. pensing nt random good or evil, alternately overthrowing empires or rearing a cottage, it may... | |
| Harold Spender - Alps - 1912 - 316 pages
...land given to him by the ruler of the world. This singular act of beneficence, at a moment when his mind was engaged by such mighty interests, is worthy...conqueror's caprice, dispensing at random good or evil, alternately overthrowing empires or rearing a cottage, it may be useful to record such caprices, if... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1845 - 774 pages
...the world. This singular act of henelicence, at a moment when his mind was engaged by such migliiy interests, is worthy of attention. If there were nothing in it but a mere conqueror's caprice, dis. pensing at random good or evil, altiruali-lv overthrowing empires or rearing a cottage, it may... | |
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