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the fate of Nonsuch: what was allegedly one of the greatest palaces in all of Europe was given by a disinterested king to a negligent mistress (Charles II to Barbara Villiers), who set about dismantling it to pay off her gambling debts.

Team Δy chief Alan Britton, M.S. & J.D., of whom one sensed that no one had ever even once made fun, was an immense and physically imposing man, roughly 6'1" in every direction, with a large smooth shiny oval head in the precise center of which were extremely tiny close-set features arranged in the invulnerably cheerful expression of a man

Le libéralisme aristocratique représenté en France par les parlements se répand largement en Europe, et en particulier en Europe centre-orientale.

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« Mes livres me garantissent déjà une forme d’immortalité 188. » En est-il si sûr ? Il aimerait bien laisser derrière lui un monument comparable à La Montagne magique de Thomas Mann ou aux Frères Karamazov de Fiodor Dostoïevski, seulement voilà : prisonnier de son image, il doute. « Il y a quelque chose dans l’époque moderne qui rend ce genre de pr

She had that rare sense which discerns what is unalterable, and submits to it without murmuring. Adoring her husband’s virtues, she had very early made up her mind to his incapacity of minding his own interests, and had met the consequences cheerfully. She had been magnanimous enough to renounce all pride in teapots or children’s frilling, and had

Nuland was a renowned surgeon-philosopher whose seminal book about mortality, How We Die, had come out when I was in high school but made it into my hands only in medical school. Few books I had read so directly and wholly

a young creature who had known nothing but indulgence, and whose dreams had all been of new indulgence, more exactly to her taste.