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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... manner with Hume . Macpherson's and Dalrymple's Original Papers , with Fox's History of James II . , and the Appendix . ( 5. ) To these may be added : Lacretelle's Histoire de France pendant le XVIII . Siècle , afterwards his Précis ...
... manner with Hume . Macpherson's and Dalrymple's Original Papers , with Fox's History of James II . , and the Appendix . ( 5. ) To these may be added : Lacretelle's Histoire de France pendant le XVIII . Siècle , afterwards his Précis ...
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... manner , I was persuaded that lectures . would be 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 ...
... manner , I was persuaded that lectures . would be 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 ...
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... manner it would naturally be thought that the greatest possible historical information might be procured with the least possible exertion . I therefore devoted a considerable portion of time to the general history of Voltaire , the ...
... manner it would naturally be thought that the greatest possible historical information might be procured with the least possible exertion . I therefore devoted a considerable portion of time to the general history of Voltaire , the ...
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... manner so readily find . But I have ventured to do more than this - for I have not only recommended as few books as possible , but I have re- commended only parts of books , and sometimes only a few pages in a volume . This , it will be ...
... manner so readily find . But I have ventured to do more than this - for I have not only recommended as few books as possible , but I have re- commended only parts of books , and sometimes only a few pages in a volume . This , it will be ...
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... manner , of the avocations , and even amusements , of social life , which have everywhere been multiplied by the growing prosperity of mankind — many of them not only intellectual , but intellectual in the highest sense of the word ...
... manner , of the avocations , and even amusements , of social life , which have everywhere been multiplied by the growing prosperity of mankind — many of them not only intellectual , but intellectual in the highest sense of the word ...
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