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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... expected from me in this place long before I could have attempted to execute it , in any manner , however im- perfect and inadequate to my wishes . Having mentioned this reason , it is unnecessary to mention others , which might also ...
... expected from me in this place long before I could have attempted to execute it , in any manner , however im- perfect and inadequate to my wishes . Having mentioned this reason , it is unnecessary to mention others , which might also ...
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... expected or required . Abridgments and general histories must here be used . Not that much can be thus received , but that much is not wanted , and that , what little is necessary , may be thus obtained . I must also confess that ...
... expected or required . Abridgments and general histories must here be used . Not that much can be thus received , but that much is not wanted , and that , what little is necessary , may be thus obtained . I must also confess that ...
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... expected , and that many more pages shall be read in the twenty - four hours than can possibly be reflected upon . I remember to have heard that a man of literature and great historical reading had once been speaking of the great French ...
... expected , and that many more pages shall be read in the twenty - four hours than can possibly be reflected upon . I remember to have heard that a man of literature and great historical reading had once been speaking of the great French ...
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... expected would be made by his readers , and perhaps never intended they should make . Cæsar , for instance , is not giving an avowed description of the Germans , when he gives us the reply of Ariovistus ; yet how could he have described ...
... expected would be made by his readers , and perhaps never intended they should make . Cæsar , for instance , is not giving an avowed description of the Germans , when he gives us the reply of Ariovistus ; yet how could he have described ...
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... expected . Under the military government of the army ( a government of anarchy and licentiousness ) the character of the Roman people , and of the army itself , would eventually sink and perish and a few Barbarian chieftains arising at ...
... expected . Under the military government of the army ( a government of anarchy and licentiousness ) the character of the Roman people , and of the army itself , would eventually sink and perish and a few Barbarian chieftains arising at ...
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