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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... virtue , must be placed on an eminence . Having now endeavoured to explain the design - the method - and the exteut of my lectures , and to state the difficulties which my hearer and myself will have mutually to encounter , it may be ...
... virtue , must be placed on an eminence . Having now endeavoured to explain the design - the method - and the exteut of my lectures , and to state the difficulties which my hearer and myself will have mutually to encounter , it may be ...
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... virtues of those who went before them . But history may do more than this , it may exhibit to a people the rallying points of their constitution , the fortresses and strongholds of their political happiness ; and it may teach them a ...
... virtues of those who went before them . But history may do more than this , it may exhibit to a people the rallying points of their constitution , the fortresses and strongholds of their political happiness ; and it may teach them a ...
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... virtues of humanity . There are other important purposes to which history may be made subservient . Unless the past be known , the present cannot be under- stood ; records therefore and memorials often form a very material part of ...
... virtues of humanity . There are other important purposes to which history may be made subservient . Unless the past be known , the present cannot be under- stood ; records therefore and memorials often form a very material part of ...
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... virtue of the rising generation . NOTE . THE professorship of modern history and languages was founded by George the First , in 1724 , on the recommendation of the Duke of Newcastle . His Grace has the merit of being one of those very ...
... virtue of the rising generation . NOTE . THE professorship of modern history and languages was founded by George the First , in 1724 , on the recommendation of the Duke of Newcastle . His Grace has the merit of being one of those very ...
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... virtue " the sublime science of simple souls " - which he conceived could be only found amid the rocks and the ... virtues were undoubtedly to be found among them ; but to the perfection of the human character it is necessary that ...
... virtue " the sublime science of simple souls " - which he conceived could be only found amid the rocks and the ... virtues were undoubtedly to be found among them ; but to the perfection of the human character it is necessary that ...
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