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1  Monsieur Kiril is a man of education, who speaks French.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
2  "That's what comes of a modern education," exclaimed the visitor.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
3  Yes, that's a difficulty, as education is not at all general, but.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V
4  One day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he's a wild beast.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
5  You know I did all a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
6  Prince Andrew said that for that work an education in jurisprudence was needed which he did not possess.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI
7  Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna Pavlovna's was the first he had attended in Russia.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
8  Sometimes the old count would come up, kiss Prince Andrew, and ask his advice about Petya's education or Nicholas' service.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIV
9  Well, my dear boy, I hear you've been educated abroad, not taught to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
10  The young man had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his first appearance in society.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
11  He decided that he must attend to his son's education by finding a tutor and putting the boy in his charge, then he ought to retire from the service and go abroad, and see England, Switzerland and Italy.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIX
12  He himself undertook his daughter's education, and to develop these two cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was occupied.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
13  And all this was found in Alexander I; all this had been prepared by innumerable so-called chances in his life: his education, his early liberalism, the advisers who surrounded him, and by Austerlitz, and Tilsit, and Erfurt.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
14  Little Nicholas and his education, her brother Andrew, and religion were Princess Mary's joys and consolations; but besides that, since everyone must have personal hopes, Princess Mary in the profoundest depths of her heart had a hidden dream and hope that supplied the chief consolation of her life.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
15  That feeling akin to temptation which had tormented her during her father's illness, since his death, and especially since her meeting with Rostov was smothered by arrangements for the journey, anxiety about her brother, settling in a new house, meeting new people, and attending to her nephew's education.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI
16  This inevitability alone can explain how the cruel Arakcheev, who tore out a grenadier's mustache with his own hands, whose weak nerves rendered him unable to face danger, and who was neither an educated man nor a courtier, was able to maintain his powerful position with Alexander, whose own character was chivalrous, noble, and gentle.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V
17  Soon after Anna Pavlovna's reception Anna Mikhaylovna returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the Rostovs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling Bory, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being at once transferred to the Guards as a cornet, had been educated from childhood and lived for years at a time.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
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