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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... Difficulties , illustrated by Anec- dotes and Memoirs . Revised Edition . With numerous Portraits . Cruikshank's Three Courses and a Dessert . A Series of Tales , with 50 hu- morous Illustrations by Cruikshank . Dante . Translated by ...
... Difficulties , illustrated by Anec- dotes and Memoirs . Revised Edition . With numerous Portraits . Cruikshank's Three Courses and a Dessert . A Series of Tales , with 50 hu- morous Illustrations by Cruikshank . Dante . Translated by ...
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... difficulty . The great Lord Bacon did not find himself unworthily employed when he was considering the existing situation , and contemplating the future advancement of human learn- ing ; but to look back upon the world and to consider ...
... difficulty . The great Lord Bacon did not find himself unworthily employed when he was considering the existing situation , and contemplating the future advancement of human learn- ing ; but to look back upon the world and to consider ...
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... difficulty for me , and be very adequate , as I conceive , to all the purposes which lectures can attempt to accomplish for you . For with respect to myself , what must be the province allotted to me ? I must prefer one book to another ...
... difficulty for me , and be very adequate , as I conceive , to all the purposes which lectures can attempt to accomplish for you . For with respect to myself , what must be the province allotted to me ? I must prefer one book to another ...
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... difficulty of all others the most invin- cible and embarrassing . I must endeavour to consider it with all possible attention . The great authority on a subject like this , is Dufresnoy- Dufresnoy's Chronology . After laying down a ...
... difficulty of all others the most invin- cible and embarrassing . I must endeavour to consider it with all possible attention . The great authority on a subject like this , is Dufresnoy- Dufresnoy's Chronology . After laying down a ...
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... , in consequence of this difficulty , has been , through the whole of my lectures to recommend , not as many books as the subject admitted of , but as few . And I am the more at ease while I do 8 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
... , in consequence of this difficulty , has been , through the whole of my lectures to recommend , not as many books as the subject admitted of , but as few . And I am the more at ease while I do 8 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
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Page 11 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Page 213 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
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Page 345 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 32 - Alii immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines.