Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the Close of the American Revolution, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... inquiry . Biography , though dealing too much in panegyric , is always more or less entertaining and instructive , often affording at the same time historical facts and traits of character , that are by no means without their importance ...
... inquiry . Biography , though dealing too much in panegyric , is always more or less entertaining and instructive , often affording at the same time historical facts and traits of character , that are by no means without their importance ...
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... inquiry , criticism , and speculation which the wisest and brightest of mankind had been content to extend only to the more particular theme of human knowledge . Such were the first impressions produced upon my mind by the plan that had ...
... inquiry , criticism , and speculation which the wisest and brightest of mankind had been content to extend only to the more particular theme of human knowledge . Such were the first impressions produced upon my mind by the plan that had ...
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... inquiry was this - What course of historical reading it would be fittest to recommend — what were the books , and how were they to be read . The first direction of a student's mind would be , I knew , to have recourse to general ...
... inquiry was this - What course of historical reading it would be fittest to recommend — what were the books , and how were they to be read . The first direction of a student's mind would be , I knew , to have recourse to general ...
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... inquiry . Now this effect was certainly not the effect which was intended - all risk of any event like this must be most care- fully avoided . And on the whole it is sufficiently evident , that any lecturer in history cannot be better ...
... inquiry . Now this effect was certainly not the effect which was intended - all risk of any event like this must be most care- fully avoided . And on the whole it is sufficiently evident , that any lecturer in history cannot be better ...
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... inquiry and knowledge have been opened to us that were to them unknown . The regions of science , for instance , may be considered as a world lately found , hitherto but partially explored , and in itself inexhaustible . What are we to ...
... inquiry and knowledge have been opened to us that were to them unknown . The regions of science , for instance , may be considered as a world lately found , hitherto but partially explored , and in itself inexhaustible . What are we to ...
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