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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... Student an idea of the progress of society in the Middle Ages . ENGLISH HISTORY . TACITUS ' Agricola - Suetonius - Wilkins on Saxon Laws - Hume's Appendix -Millar on the English Constitution - Nicolson's Historical Library- Priestley's ...
... Student an idea of the progress of society in the Middle Ages . ENGLISH HISTORY . TACITUS ' Agricola - Suetonius - Wilkins on Saxon Laws - Hume's Appendix -Millar on the English Constitution - Nicolson's Historical Library- Priestley's ...
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... Student an immediate view of all the valuable Books that refer to any particular subject of his inquiry . Biography , though dealing too much in panegyric , is always more or less entertaining and instructive , often affording at the ...
... Student an immediate view of all the valuable Books that refer to any particular subject of his inquiry . Biography , though dealing too much in panegyric , is always more or less entertaining and instructive , often affording at the ...
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... student should be at all events directed . The next scheme of lectures , that occurred to me , was to take particular periods of history and to review and estimate several of them , if possible , in a connected manner . The period , for ...
... student should be at all events directed . The next scheme of lectures , that occurred to me , was to take particular periods of history and to review and estimate several of them , if possible , in a connected manner . The period , for ...
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... student's mind would be , I knew , to have recourse to general histories , to summaries and abridg- ments of history ; for in this manner it would naturally be thought that the greatest possible historical information might be procured ...
... student's mind would be , I knew , to have recourse to general histories , to summaries and abridg- ments of history ; for in this manner it would naturally be thought that the greatest possible historical information might be procured ...
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... of any particular history ; they may be to the student , what maps are to the traveller , and give an idea of the nature of the country and of the magnitude and situation of the towns , through which he 6 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
... of any particular history ; they may be to the student , what maps are to the traveller , and give an idea of the nature of the country and of the magnitude and situation of the towns , through which he 6 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
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