Though this age appears, to our ignorance, to have been almost the barbaric infancy of China, _ _ _ _ poetry abounds in the Odes, and plays a gamut of many moods. [4 Letters; L _ _ _]

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The high _ _ _ _ _ of the island’s history and literature had passed, but it continued to give chaotic Europe an unheeded lesson in competent and orderly government. [5 Letters; P _ _ _ T]

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His success there aroused the envy of his local competitors; they accused him of plagiarism; he retired to Bologna, but was recalled by Gregory XV to be chief _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , [9 Letters; A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T]

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As archbishop of Bologna he had seen no contradiction between attendance at the opera three _ _ _ _ _ a week and strict attention to his episcopal tasks; [5 Letters; T _ _ _ S]

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de Tencin secured the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of Marivaux, instead of Voltaire, to the Immortals in 1742. [8 Letters; E _ _ _ _ _ _ N]

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All Christians, on _ _ _ _ of death, have been ordered to join in an Empire-wide prayer and sacrifice to the ancient deities for divine support of Roman arms against the invading, [4 Letters; P _ _ _]

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But for this disaster we should never have heard of him, for it was in those hungry years that he wrote _ _ _ _ _ that moved the world. [5 Letters; B _ _ _ S]

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I cut off his _ _ _ _ and ears, and I cut out his tongue, and I put out his eyes. [4 Letters; N _ _ _]

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and made some progress in the most difficult reforms of all ; the reduction of personnel and extravagance at the _ _ _ _ _ court. [5 Letters; R _ _ _ L]

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is the people; that every society rests on an implicit social _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of mutual obligations and restraints between the governed and the governors; [8 Letters; C _ _ _ _ _ _ T]

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He wrote equally well on science and _ _ _ , and divided his time almost evenly between them. [3 Letters; A _ _]

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Restored to England and soon to Protestantism, he studied at Oxford, left without a degree, took to writing _ _ _ _ _ . [5 Letters; P _ _ _ S]

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and Adam Weisweiler were preferred to French cabinetmakers by French _ _ _ _ _ and queens; so Louis XVI paid eighty thousand livres for a secrétaire by Roentgen. [5 Letters; K _ _ _ S]

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of the course of Nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything … Human _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and human power meet in one; for where the course is not known, [9 Letters; K _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E]

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Charles did not come, but either he or his councilors found a _ _ _ to divide and conquer. [3 Letters; W _ _]

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This attitude continued till Nietzsche, and softened the "conflict between _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and science." [8 Letters; R _ _ _ _ _ _ N]

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She still produced laborious and conscientious scholars; but the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and universities that she had founded had raised up an educated minority whose thinking did not always please the saints. [7 Letters; S _ _ _ _ _ S]

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he made no _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to maintain his place, but quietly withdrew to the monastery of the Sulpicians at Issy, a suburb of Paris (December 18, 1725). [7 Letters; A _ _ _ _ _ T]

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Asked what made an orderly and well-constituted state, he replied, "When the people obey the rulers, and the rulers obey the _ _ _ _ . [4 Letters; L _ _ _]

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