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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... whole the best History of the reign we as yet have— Belsham will furnish proper topics of reflection , Tindal the detail , and Ralph even more than Tindal - Burnet must of course be read - Cobbett will supply the Debates . There are ...
... whole the best History of the reign we as yet have— Belsham will furnish proper topics of reflection , Tindal the detail , and Ralph even more than Tindal - Burnet must of course be read - Cobbett will supply the Debates . There are ...
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... whole from time to time , as resulting from the combined effect of the failures and successes of all the parts - to attempt this , is to attempt more than was effected even by the enterprising mind of Bacon ; for it is to appreciate the ...
... whole from time to time , as resulting from the combined effect of the failures and successes of all the parts - to attempt this , is to attempt more than was effected even by the enterprising mind of Bacon ; for it is to appreciate the ...
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... whole , give , if possible , a general and commanding view of the great subjects of modern history . This cannot be attempted by me without meditating the whole , and considering the relations of all the different parts . with great ...
... whole , give , if possible , a general and commanding view of the great subjects of modern history . This cannot be attempted by me without meditating the whole , and considering the relations of all the different parts . with great ...
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... whole vision has passed by , as soon it does , a trace of it is scarcely found to remain . Were I to look from an eminence over a country which I had never before seen , I should dis- cover only the principal objects ; the villa , the ...
... whole vision has passed by , as soon it does , a trace of it is scarcely found to remain . Were I to look from an eminence over a country which I had never before seen , I should dis- cover only the principal objects ; the villa , the ...
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... whole it is sufficiently evident , that any lecturer in history cannot be better employed than in studying how to render the course of reading , which he proposes , as short , i . e . , as practicable , as it can possibly be made . Such ...
... whole it is sufficiently evident , that any lecturer in history cannot be better employed than in studying how to render the course of reading , which he proposes , as short , i . e . , as practicable , as it can possibly be made . Such ...
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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.