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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... less entertaining and instructive , often affording at the same time historical facts and traits of character , that are by no means without their importance , though they may have escaped the general historian ; these may be also often ...
... less entertaining and instructive , often affording at the same time historical facts and traits of character , that are by no means without their importance , though they may have escaped the general historian ; these may be also often ...
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... less elaborate mode of address . Instead then , of endeavouring to draw up any general history of Europe since the overthrow of the Roman empire in the west , and instead of attempting any discussion of different periods under the form ...
... less elaborate mode of address . Instead then , of endeavouring to draw up any general history of Europe since the overthrow of the Roman empire in the west , and instead of attempting any discussion of different periods under the form ...
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... less to rival , the works which their labours have transmitted for our instruction . I mean not to deny that there is considerable weight in this objection , and nothing but the intolerable perplexity of the case , its insurmountable ...
... less to rival , the works which their labours have transmitted for our instruction . I mean not to deny that there is considerable weight in this objection , and nothing but the intolerable perplexity of the case , its insurmountable ...
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... less skilful will be the choice , and the more hazardous the privilege , thus allowed , of reading pages by a glance , and chapters by a table of contents . But the mind , after some failures and some experience , will mate- rially ...
... less skilful will be the choice , and the more hazardous the privilege , thus allowed , of reading pages by a glance , and chapters by a table of contents . But the mind , after some failures and some experience , will mate- rially ...
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... less of which his understanding has ascertained the value . Such are the considerations by which I have been reconciled to the modes I have proposed , of struggling with the difficulties I have described . Before I proceed , I must turn ...
... less of which his understanding has ascertained the value . Such are the considerations by which I have been reconciled to the modes I have proposed , of struggling with the difficulties I have described . Before I proceed , I must turn ...
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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.