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" It is, properly, from the elevated mind of France, that the folly of titles has been abolished. "
Literary Studies: A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays - Page 113
by William Alfred Jones - 1847
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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Thomas Paine - France - 1856 - 168 pages
...in dings which are little. It talks ahout its fine hlue rihhon like a girl, and shews its new garter like a child. A certain writer, of some antiquity,...from the elevated mind of France, that the folly of has fallen. It has outgrown the hahy clothes of Cuunl and '. and hreeched itself in manhood. France...
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Characters and Criticisms, Volume 1

William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 310 pages
...and politically of their fellows, else why leaders ? And we find as matter of history, the staunchest advocates of liberal views and free government at...of titles has been abolished. It has outgrown the baby clothes of Count and Duke, and breeched itself into manhood. France has not levelled, it has exalted....
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Characters and Criticisms, Volume 1

William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 312 pages
...been able men, good patriots and gentlemen — to look at Lafayette in France ; Sidney and Eussell and Hampden in England ; and all of our own great...of titles has been abolished. It has outgrown the baby clothes of Count and Duke, and breeched itself into manhood. France has not levelled, it has exalted....
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Characters and Criticisms, Volume 1

William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 306 pages
...the Rights of Man on the abolition of titles in France, at the framing of their new constitution-—a masterly passage, equal to certain of Burke's noblest...of titles has been abolished. It has outgrown the baby clothes of Count and Duke, and breeched itself into manhood. France has not levelled, it has exalted....
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Junius Unmasked; Or Thomas Pain, the Author of the Letters of Junius, and ...

Joel Moody - 1872 - 332 pages
...It talks about its fine ribbon like a girl, and shows its garter like a child. A certain writer of antiquity says, ' When I was a child I thought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things.' . . The insignificance of a senseless word like...
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Junius Unmasked: Or Thomas Paine the Author of the Letters of Junius, and ...

Joel Moody - Great Britain - 1872 - 340 pages
...It talks about its fine ribbon like a girl, and shows its garter like a child. A certain writer of antiquity says, ' When I was a child I thought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things/ . . The insignificance of a senseless word like...
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Junius Unmasked; Or Thomas Pain, the Author of the Letters of Junius, and ...

Joel Moody - 1872 - 332 pages
...It talks about its fine ribbon like a girl, and shows its garter like a child. A certain writer of antiquity says, ' When I was a child I thought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things.' . . The insignificance of a senseless word like...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...woman in things which are little. It talks about its fine riband like a girl, and shows its garter like a child. A certain writer, of some antiquity,...baby-clothes of count and duke, and breeched itself in manhood. France has not levelled, it VOL. III.—15 has exalted . It has put down the dwarf to set...
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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French ...

Thomas Paine - France - 1892 - 300 pages
...things which are little. It talks about its fine blue ribbon like a girl, and shows its new garter like a child. A certain writer, of some antiquity,...babyclothes of Count and Duke, and breeched itself in manhood. France has not levelled, it has exalted. It has put down the dwarf to set up the man. The...
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A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - American literature - 1894 - 592 pages
...woman in things which are little. It talks about its fine riband like a girl, and shows its garter like a child. A certain writer, of some antiquity,...baby-clothes of count and duke, and breeched itself in manhood. France has not levelled, it TOL. III.— 15 has exalted. It has put down the dwarf to set...
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