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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... established work , not by D'Anquetil , as had been supposed . But for the times of Richelieu and Mazarin see the chapters that relate to them in Russel , with those in the Modern Universal History , which will be sufficient when added ...
... established work , not by D'Anquetil , as had been supposed . But for the times of Richelieu and Mazarin see the chapters that relate to them in Russel , with those in the Modern Universal History , which will be sufficient when added ...
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... establish his statements and illustrate his arguments ; or with all the proper materials of wit and eloquence . A weak memory can never afford to its possessor the advantages which result from a memory capacious and retentive ; yet it ...
... establish his statements and illustrate his arguments ; or with all the proper materials of wit and eloquence . A weak memory can never afford to its possessor the advantages which result from a memory capacious and retentive ; yet it ...
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... 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 mankind . It is the misfortune ...
... 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 mankind . It is the misfortune ...
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... established their own ; they have taken their different stations . What then was the result ? To what degree , on the one hand , was the independent ferocity of the Barbarians softened , by that Christianity and those laws which were at ...
... established their own ; they have taken their different stations . What then was the result ? To what degree , on the one hand , was the independent ferocity of the Barbarians softened , by that Christianity and those laws which were at ...
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... established , though not in the time of Tacitus : an im- portant step in the civilisation of mankind . But there seems nothing said of a power to bequeath it by testament at the will of the possessor . Next , with respect to the laws ...
... established , though not in the time of Tacitus : an im- portant step in the civilisation of mankind . But there seems nothing said of a power to bequeath it by testament at the will of the possessor . Next , with respect to the laws ...
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