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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... Reader is requested 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 ...
... Reader is requested 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 ...
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... reader . Mirabeau on the Prussian Monarchy ; particularly the first vol . and last ; read and criticise the general observations in other vols . of the work . Nothing of an historical nature in the Letters between him and Voltaire . The ...
... reader . Mirabeau on the Prussian Monarchy ; particularly the first vol . and last ; read and criticise the general observations in other vols . of the work . Nothing of an historical nature in the Letters between him and Voltaire . The ...
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... readers of history . By no other means can you derive the full benefit that may and should be derived from the annals of the past . Large and comprehensive views , the connection of causes and effects , the steady , though often slow ...
... readers of history . By no other means can you derive the full benefit that may and should be derived from the annals of the past . Large and comprehensive views , the connection of causes and effects , the steady , though often slow ...
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... reader of history . Thuanus was brought to him— seven folio volumes . Ardent as was the student , surprise was soon ... readers books , which it might be the labour of years to peruse ; they will certainly not be perused , and the ...
... reader of history . Thuanus was brought to him— seven folio volumes . Ardent as was the student , surprise was soon ... readers books , which it might be the labour of years to peruse ; they will certainly not be perused , and the ...
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... readers , as are called upon to study any particular point or period of history more minutely than can in general be necessary , need be at no loss for proper materials on which to exercise their diligence , and cannot want to receive ...
... readers , as are called upon to study any particular point or period of history more minutely than can in general be necessary , need be at no loss for proper materials on which to exercise their diligence , and cannot want to receive ...
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