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... Revolution which was accepted as orthodox in the eighteenth century . The Revolution was in form conserva- tive : it professed to restore and to preserve , not to innovate . The fact that it was revolutionary , that the convention was ...
... Revolution which was accepted as orthodox in the eighteenth century . The Revolution was in form conserva- tive : it professed to restore and to preserve , not to innovate . The fact that it was revolutionary , that the convention was ...
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... Revolution which was accepted as orthodox in the eighteenth century . The Revolution was in form conserva- tive : it professed to restore and to preserve , not to innovate . The fact that it was revolutionary , that the convention was ...
... Revolution which was accepted as orthodox in the eighteenth century . The Revolution was in form conserva- tive : it professed to restore and to preserve , not to innovate . The fact that it was revolutionary , that the convention was ...
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... revolution - we are in a position . to see its implications at the present day much more clearly than the men who flourished fifty or even twenty years before us . And , once again , it is not we who are under an optical illusion ...
... revolution - we are in a position . to see its implications at the present day much more clearly than the men who flourished fifty or even twenty years before us . And , once again , it is not we who are under an optical illusion ...
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The Surrender of Calais The Chronicles of Froissart I | 5 |
RAPHAEL HOLINSHED | 12 |
SIR WALTER RALEIGH | 19 |
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