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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... never to lose sight of this parti- cular circumstance they were to be listened to , not read ; they are now published in the hope that they may be useful to others , at a similar period of life . Minute historical disquisition or ...
... never to lose sight of this parti- cular circumstance they were to be listened to , not read ; they are now published in the hope that they may be useful to others , at a similar period of life . Minute historical disquisition or ...
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... never to cease . The Books referred to in the Lectures , down to the end of the American war , were the following : - Cæsar - Tacitus ( de Mor . Ger . ) , for Romans and Barbarians ; with the three first chapters of Gibbon , and the 9th ...
... never to cease . The Books referred to in the Lectures , down to the end of the American war , were the following : - Cæsar - Tacitus ( de Mor . Ger . ) , for Romans and Barbarians ; with the three first chapters of Gibbon , and the 9th ...
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... never before seen , I should dis- cover only the principal objects ; the villa , the stream , the lawn , or the wood . But if the landscape before me had been the scene of my childhood , or lately of my residence , every object would ...
... never before seen , I should dis- cover only the principal objects ; the villa , the stream , the lawn , or the wood . But if the landscape before me had been the scene of my childhood , or lately of my residence , every object would ...
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... never be a character without its value and respectability ; but the character can no longer be met with , as it once was , now that the genius of men is attracted to the inventions of art , the discoveries of science , and the various ...
... never be a character without its value and respectability ; but the character can no longer be met with , as it once was , now that the genius of men is attracted to the inventions of art , the discoveries of science , and the various ...
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... never afford to its possessor the advantages which result from a memory capacious and retentive ; yet it may still be very adequate , by careful management , to many of the most useful purposes of reflection and study ; it may still ...
... never afford to its possessor the advantages which result from a memory capacious and retentive ; yet it may still be very adequate , by careful management , to many of the most useful purposes of reflection and study ; it may still ...
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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 32 - Alii immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines.