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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... Nature . Upwards of 100 Engravings . ( Mary and William ) Stories of English and Foreign Life . Twenty beau- tiful ... Natural History of Precious Stones , and of the Precious Metals . With numerous Illustrations . Price 6s . Kitto's ...
... Nature . Upwards of 100 Engravings . ( Mary and William ) Stories of English and Foreign Life . Twenty beau- tiful ... Natural History of Precious Stones , and of the Precious Metals . With numerous Illustrations . Price 6s . Kitto's ...
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... Nature of Historical Au- thorities , & c . For Chronology there is a great French Work , L'Art de vérifier les Dates . Dufresnoy may be met with easily . This appears to be the shortest course of Historical Reading that can be proposed ...
... Nature of Historical Au- thorities , & c . For Chronology there is a great French Work , L'Art de vérifier les Dates . Dufresnoy may be met with easily . This appears to be the shortest course of Historical Reading that can be proposed ...
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... nature of the study in which you are now to engage , and will lead to observations that may afford to these lectures their best chance of being useful . My first impressions , then , with respect to a scheme for Lectures on Modern ...
... nature of the study in which you are now to engage , and will lead to observations that may afford to these lectures their best chance of being useful . My first impressions , then , with respect to a scheme for Lectures on Modern ...
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... nature of the burthen we impose upon our facul- ties , for assuredly he who is very anxious to load his memory with much , will in general have little which in the hour of need he can produce , and still less of which his understanding ...
... nature of the burthen we impose upon our facul- ties , for assuredly he who is very anxious to load his memory with much , will in general have little which in the hour of need he can produce , and still less of which his understanding ...
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... nature that they who attend public lectures often retire from them with strong sensations of disappointment , They ... natural , and therefore history will be always read , and he who has anything to relate becomes imme- diately of ...
... nature that they who attend public lectures often retire from them with strong sensations of disappointment , They ... natural , and therefore history will be always read , and he who has anything to relate becomes imme- diately of ...
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