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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... human mind , of human society , of human happiness , of the intellectual character of the species for the last fifteen centuries . Everything therefore of a temporary nature was to be excluded ; all more particular and local history ...
... human mind , of human society , of human happiness , of the intellectual character of the species for the last fifteen centuries . Everything therefore of a temporary nature was to be excluded ; all more particular and local history ...
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... human nature , as it had shown itself , since the fall of the Roman empire , on the great theatre of the civilised part of the world , was , if possible , to be given . I must confess that this still appears to me to be the genuine and ...
... human nature , as it had shown itself , since the fall of the Roman empire , on the great theatre of the civilised part of the world , was , if possible , to be given . I must confess that this still appears to me to be the genuine and ...
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... human inquiry . Now this effect was certainly not the effect which was intended - all risk of any event like this must be most care- fully avoided . And on the whole it is sufficiently evident , that any lecturer in history cannot be ...
... human inquiry . Now this effect was certainly not the effect which was intended - all risk of any event like this must be most care- fully avoided . And on the whole it is sufficiently evident , that any lecturer in history cannot be ...
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... human life does not now admit of any other ex- pedient , and the alternative to which we are reduced in plain truth is this , either to read books of history in this manner , or not to read them at all . He knows little of human ...
... human life does not now admit of any other ex- pedient , and the alternative to which we are reduced in plain truth is this , either to read books of history in this manner , or not to read them at all . He knows little of human ...
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... human knowledge or enter- tainment - something on account of which it was more par- ticularly read and admired while a new book , and on account of which it continues to be read and admired while an old one . Now , it is these different ...
... human knowledge or enter- tainment - something on account of which it was more par- ticularly read and admired while a new book , and on account of which it continues to be read and admired while an old one . Now , it is these different ...
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