The Works of Matthew Arnold in Fifteen Volumes, Volume 11AMS Press, 1970 |
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... France , the Norman conquest of England , came in this way , with time , to be no longer talked of , to be no longer even thought of . The seizure of Strasburg by France is an event belonging to modern history . It was a violent and ...
... France , the Norman conquest of England , came in this way , with time , to be no longer talked of , to be no longer even thought of . The seizure of Strasburg by France is an event belonging to modern history . It was a violent and ...
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... France seems to have greater elements of soundness , this well - being of the French peasant counting foremost among them all , than the social condition of any other nation of Europe . A learned Belgian economist , M. de Laveleye ...
... France seems to have greater elements of soundness , this well - being of the French peasant counting foremost among them all , than the social condition of any other nation of Europe . A learned Belgian economist , M. de Laveleye ...
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... France or things French become for the solid English public the object of what our neighbours call an engouement , —an infatuated interest . Such an engouement Wordsworth witnessed in 1802 , after the Peace of Amiens , and it disturbed ...
... France or things French become for the solid English public the object of what our neighbours call an engouement , —an infatuated interest . Such an engouement Wordsworth witnessed in 1802 , after the Peace of Amiens , and it disturbed ...
Contents
THE INCOMPATIBLES I | 1 |
AN UNREGARDED IRISH GRIEVANCE | 79 |
ECCE CONVERTIMUR AD GENTES | 104 |
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