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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... Reason . Translated by J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN . Logic ; or , the Science of Inference . A Popular Manual . By J. DEVEY . Lowndes ' Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature . New Edition , en- larged , by H. G. BOHN . Parts L. to X. ( A ...
... Reason . Translated by J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN . Logic ; or , the Science of Inference . A Popular Manual . By J. DEVEY . Lowndes ' Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature . New Edition , en- larged , by H. G. BOHN . Parts L. to X. ( A ...
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... reason , it is unnecessary to mention others , which might also have induced me to form the same resolution . But a plan of this sort , though rejected by me as a lecturer , should always be present to you as readers of history . By no ...
... reason , it is unnecessary to mention others , which might also have induced me to form the same resolution . But a plan of this sort , though rejected by me as a lecturer , should always be present to you as readers of history . By no ...
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... reasons for my preference , and must therefore read and examine many . In the next place , I must , from the endless detail of Euro- pean transactions , direct the attention of my hearers to such particular trains in these transactions ...
... reasons for my preference , and must therefore read and examine many . In the next place , I must , from the endless detail of Euro- pean transactions , direct the attention of my hearers to such particular trains in these transactions ...
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... reason why lecturers on the subject of history must always be found , at the time of delivery , more or less inefficient , and therefore unsatisfactory ; why they must be even listened to with difficulty , certainly not without an ...
... reason why lecturers on the subject of history must always be found , at the time of delivery , more or less inefficient , and therefore unsatisfactory ; why they must be even listened to with difficulty , certainly not without an ...
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... reasons of my preference , though I give them , cannot be estimated by my hearers , till the references I propose have been made . Again , I have directed my attention more par- ticularly to some portions of the history of Europe than ...
... reasons of my preference , though I give them , cannot be estimated by my hearers , till the references I propose have been made . Again , I have directed my attention more par- ticularly to some portions of the history of Europe than ...
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Page 11 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
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 345 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 32 - Alii immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines.