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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... reader . Mirabeau on the Prussian Monarchy ; particularly the first vol . and last ; read and criticise the general observations in other vols . of the work . Nothing of an historical nature in the Letters between him and Voltaire . The ...
... reader . Mirabeau on the Prussian Monarchy ; particularly the first vol . and last ; read and criticise the general observations in other vols . of the work . Nothing of an historical nature in the Letters between him and Voltaire . The ...
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... readers of history . By no other means can you derive the full benefit that may and should be derived from the annals of the past . Large and comprehensive views , the connection of causes and effects , the steady , though often slow ...
... readers of history . By no other means can you derive the full benefit that may and should be derived from the annals of the past . Large and comprehensive views , the connection of causes and effects , the steady , though often slow ...
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... reader of history . Thuanus was brought to him— seven folio volumes . Ardent as was the student , surprise was soon ... readers books , which it might be the labour of years to peruse ; they will certainly not be perused , and the ...
... reader of history . Thuanus was brought to him— seven folio volumes . Ardent as was the student , surprise was soon ... readers books , which it might be the labour of years to peruse ; they will certainly not be perused , and the ...
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... reader of history to conjecture with sufficient accuracy whether the details , if referred to , would , on any given occasion , be of importance . General impressions are sufficient to prevent us from making positive mistakes ourselves ...
... reader of history to conjecture with sufficient accuracy whether the details , if referred to , would , on any given occasion , be of importance . General impressions are sufficient to prevent us from making positive mistakes ourselves ...
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... reader of history as to acquire the art of drawing from an original author such inferences as the author himself never expected would be made by his readers , and perhaps never intended they should make . Cæsar , for instance , is not ...
... reader of history as to acquire the art of drawing from an original author such inferences as the author himself never expected would be made by his readers , and perhaps never intended they should make . Cæsar , for instance , is not ...
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