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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... occasion , be of importance . General impressions are sufficient to prevent us from making positive mistakes ourselves , and even from suffering them to be made by others . We are aware that there is something which we have read on the ...
... occasion , be of importance . General impressions are sufficient to prevent us from making positive mistakes ourselves , and even from suffering them to be made by others . We are aware that there is something which we have read on the ...
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... occasion in my own mind , I cannot suppose that the details on which those remarks are founded can be present to my hearers : or therefore that my remarks can be properly understood ; the details not being known , the interest which ...
... occasion in my own mind , I cannot suppose that the details on which those remarks are founded can be present to my hearers : or therefore that my remarks can be properly understood ; the details not being known , the interest which ...
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... Walpole , may on these occasions be not a little suspected of something like affectation of being dupes to their art . Our own king , James the First , was the most egregious pedant of this kind on record 22 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
... Walpole , may on these occasions be not a little suspected of something like affectation of being dupes to their art . Our own king , James the First , was the most egregious pedant of this kind on record 22 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
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... occasions through life ; from a comparison of events and of appear- ances with the acknowledged principles of human actions . Mistakes may sometimes be made ( as by juries on a trial ) , but this is not a sufficient reason for ...
... occasions through life ; from a comparison of events and of appear- ances with the acknowledged principles of human actions . Mistakes may sometimes be made ( as by juries on a trial ) , but this is not a sufficient reason for ...
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... occasion I consider as invaluable - Butler on the German Constitution . Here will be found all the outlines of the subject . Let the detail be studied , whenever it is thought necessary , in Gibbon . Let Hénault's Abridgment , or ...
... occasion I consider as invaluable - Butler on the German Constitution . Here will be found all the outlines of the subject . Let the detail be studied , whenever it is thought necessary , in Gibbon . Let Hénault's Abridgment , or ...
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