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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... least possible exertion . I therefore devoted a considerable portion of time to the general history of Voltaire , the modern history of Russell , and to the French general history by the Chevalier Mehegan . All works of merit and ...
... least possible exertion . I therefore devoted a considerable portion of time to the general history of Voltaire , the modern history of Russell , and to the French general history by the Chevalier Mehegan . All works of merit and ...
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... least part of the impression that was received by the mind . Such is the difference beween reading general histories before , or after the particular histories to which they refer . I must not indeed omit to observe that there are some ...
... least part of the impression that was received by the mind . Such is the difference beween reading general histories before , or after the particular histories to which they refer . I must not indeed omit to observe that there are some ...
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... least there is every variety in the importance of different passages . Neither events , nor characters , nor periods of time , are at all the same , or of equal consequence . Nor are the writers of like merit with each other , or of ...
... least there is every variety in the importance of different passages . Neither events , nor characters , nor periods of time , are at all the same , or of equal consequence . Nor are the writers of like merit with each other , or of ...
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... least suspend our judgment . We require that the question may not be determined till after proper examination . General impressions , indeed , will not furnish a reasoner in conversation , an advocate at the bar , or a debater in parlia ...
... least suspend our judgment . We require that the question may not be determined till after proper examination . General impressions , indeed , will not furnish a reasoner in conversation , an advocate at the bar , or a debater in parlia ...
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... least know , after a certain indistinct manner , what history is , and this is the great use of all public lectures ; for public lectures may give you a general idea of any science or subject , but can never of themselves do much more ...
... least know , after a certain indistinct manner , what history is , and this is the great use of all public lectures ; for public lectures may give you a general idea of any science or subject , but can never of themselves do much more ...
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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.