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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... merit de- serving of your attention ; it has therefore been always a source of pride to me , to have owed my Professorship to your Lordship's favourable opinion ; and these Lectures , the result of my appointment , are now dedicated to ...
... merit de- serving of your attention ; it has therefore been always a source of pride to me , to have owed my Professorship to your Lordship's favourable opinion ; and these Lectures , the result of my appointment , are now dedicated to ...
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... merit . - The Legal History of the Colonies may be found in Chalmers , a book which may be consulted , but cannot be read.- Stedman wrote a History of the American War , an actor in the scene , and a sensible man , but with ordinary ...
... merit . - The Legal History of the Colonies may be found in Chalmers , a book which may be consulted , but cannot be read.- Stedman wrote a History of the American War , an actor in the scene , and a sensible man , but with ordinary ...
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... merit of being practicable . But after some deliberation , this plan , also , I have thought it best to reject ; chiefly , because to attempt it , would be rather to attempt to write a book , than to give lectures . I do not say that ...
... merit of being practicable . But after some deliberation , this plan , also , I have thought it best to reject ; chiefly , because to attempt it , would be rather to attempt to write a book , than to give lectures . I do not say that ...
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... merit and reputation , the first and last of great celebrity . The first advice then which I shall take upon me to give , as the result of my experience , is this ; -not to read general histories and abridgments of history , as a more ...
... merit and reputation , the first and last of great celebrity . The first advice then which I shall take upon me to give , as the result of my experience , is this ; -not to read general histories and abridgments of history , as a more ...
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... once been speaking of the great French historian Thuanus in those terms of commendation which it was natural for him to employ , when alluding to a work of such extraordinary merit . A youth who had INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 7.
... once been speaking of the great French historian Thuanus in those terms of commendation which it was natural for him to employ , when alluding to a work of such extraordinary merit . A youth who had INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 7.
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