Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 131
ever before, actuated probably bythe example of the Grecian republics, the more wide-spread knowledge ofwhose history, joined with the awakening events of the American Revolu-tion, was fast undermining the structure of the heaven-descended right of kings. It was also impossible thatsuch a new world… … Louis Seize Chair. ideas are so constantly reflected in theLouis Seize that it seems, in many re-spects, almost a repetition of the earlyRenaissance. In addition to all that,without doubt the very great favorthat Classic aspirations had been meet-ing in England also, where, in a de-based state, the…
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