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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... causes and effects , and to establish those general principles , which may be considered by the states- man , if not as axioms , as the best guides at least , that can be found , for his conduct , in his management of the affairs of ...
... causes and effects , and to establish those general principles , which may be considered by the states- man , if not as axioms , as the best guides at least , that can be found , for his conduct , in his management of the affairs of ...
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... causes of their prosperity ; we may trace the steps by which they have descended to degradation and ruin . The truth is , that these tremendous years have made such studies as we are now to engage in , considered in this point of view ...
... causes of their prosperity ; we may trace the steps by which they have descended to degradation and ruin . The truth is , that these tremendous years have made such studies as we are now to engage in , considered in this point of view ...
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... cause of truth . Yet these celebrated discourses cannot fail of accomplishing their end , of enforcing upon the reader the general evidence of his own faith , and of animating his mind with the contrast between the religion of the Koran ...
... cause of truth . Yet these celebrated discourses cannot fail of accomplishing their end , of enforcing upon the reader the general evidence of his own faith , and of animating his mind with the contrast between the religion of the Koran ...
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... causes of his success have been well explained by the authors I have mentioned . Yet , gifted as he was with every mental and personal qualifi- cation , and highly assisted in his enterprise by the moral and political situation of his ...
... causes of his success have been well explained by the authors I have mentioned . Yet , gifted as he was with every mental and personal qualifi- cation , and highly assisted in his enterprise by the moral and political situation of his ...
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... causes of good ; how the clouds cleared away that overhung these middle ages ; how the interests of society became at last progressive , lost and hopeless as at this melancholy period they certainly appeared . The great evils that ...
... causes of good ; how the clouds cleared away that overhung these middle ages ; how the interests of society became at last progressive , lost and hopeless as at this melancholy period they certainly appeared . The great evils that ...
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