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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... 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 ; all ...
... 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 ; all ...
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... mind of Bacon ; for it is to appreciate the facts as well as to exhibit the theory of human society - to weigh in the balance the conduct , as well as the intelligence of mankind , and to extend to the religion , legislation , and ...
... mind of Bacon ; for it is to appreciate the facts as well as to exhibit the theory of human society - to weigh in the balance the conduct , as well as the intelligence of mankind , and to extend to the religion , legislation , and ...
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... mind would be , I knew , to have recourse to general histories , to summaries and abridg- ments of history ; for in this manner it would naturally be thought that the greatest possible historical information might be procured with the ...
... mind would be , I knew , to have recourse to general histories , to summaries and abridg- ments of history ; for in this manner it would naturally be thought that the greatest possible historical information might be procured with the ...
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... mind a succession of objects and images , each of which appears and retires too rapidly to be surveyed , and when the whole vision has passed by , as soon it does , a trace of it is scarcely found to remain . Were I to look from an ...
... mind a succession of objects and images , each of which appears and retires too rapidly to be surveyed , and when the whole vision has passed by , as soon it does , a trace of it is scarcely found to remain . Were I to look from an ...
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... mind - the remainder of each volume is but that subordinate portion which has no value but as connected with the other , and is often made up of those errors and imperfections which are in fact the inseparable attendants of every human ...
... mind - the remainder of each volume is but that subordinate portion which has no value but as connected with the other , and is often made up of those errors and imperfections which are in fact the inseparable attendants of every human ...
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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.