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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... observe that there are some parts of history so obscure and of so little importance , that general accounts of them are all that can either be expected or required . Abridgments and general histories must here be used . Not that much ...
... observe that there are some parts of history so obscure and of so little importance , that general accounts of them are all that can either be expected or required . Abridgments and general histories must here be used . Not that much ...
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... observe , in the first place , a course of reading pointed out so short , that it would be quite improper to suppose that the most indolent or the most busy among you , cannot now or hereafter accomplish it . This first course , as you ...
... observe , in the first place , a course of reading pointed out so short , that it would be quite improper to suppose that the most indolent or the most busy among you , cannot now or hereafter accomplish it . This first course , as you ...
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... observe , that there is one objection to history , too imposing and too weighty not to be alluded to and examined ... observation of the public ; particularly of historians , men of study and retirement , who know nothing of that ...
... observe , that there is one objection to history , too imposing and too weighty not to be alluded to and examined ... observation of the public ; particularly of historians , men of study and retirement , who know nothing of that ...
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... observation first of one of the most celebrated men , and afterwards of one of the most celebrated writers of antiquity ... observe , that though the Celts or Gauls are not to be confounded with the Gothic nations , who finally over- ran ...
... observation first of one of the most celebrated men , and afterwards of one of the most celebrated writers of antiquity ... observe , that though the Celts or Gauls are not to be confounded with the Gothic nations , who finally over- ran ...
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... observe that savage and civilised life may each exhibit the disgusting extremes of opposite evil : but the one uniformly , the other only partially . It is in vain to fly from one , to be lost in the still more frightful degradation of ...
... observe that savage and civilised life may each exhibit the disgusting extremes of opposite evil : but the one uniformly , the other only partially . It is in vain to fly from one , to be lost in the still more frightful degradation of ...
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