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Art and letters (1888)

London : Boussard, Valadon & Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 91

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AFLOAT 177 claimable barbarism of this active, weak race, which thus employs its efforts in creating engines for its own destruction. The men who formerly built with stones cathedrals of lace-work, fairy palaces to shelter childish or pious dreams, were they not every whit as good as those of the… … own little shell, I hear the sound of musketi’y on shore. It is the regiment stationed at Antibes skirmishing on the sands and in the pine- woods. The smoke rises in white mists, like clouds of cotton, which disperse, and we see the red trousers of the soldiers running along the shore. The naval…

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