 English peer should be no more than a rich and powerful citizen, while in Germany they are all princes. I have known more than thirty highnesses of the same name, whose whole fortunes and estate put together amounted to a few coats of arms, and the starving...  Works: A Contemporary Version - Trang 13bởi Voltaire - 1901Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Voltaire - 1901 - 614 trang
...English peer should be no more than a rich and powerful citizen, while in Germany they are all princes. I have known more than thirty highnesses of the same...starving pride they inherited from their ancestors. In France everybody is a marquis; and a man just come from the obscurity of some remote province, with... | |
 | Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1901 - 328 trang
...English peer should be no more than a rich and powerful citizen, while in Germany they are all princes. I have known more than thirty highnesses of the same...starving pride they inherited from their ancestors. In France everybody is a marquis ; and a man just come from the obscurity of some remote province,... | |
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