Letters on the Study and Use of History: On Exile ; the Spirit of Patriotism ; Idea of a Patriot King ; State of Parties in 1714Alexander Murray, 1870 - 280 pages |
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... France , Bolingbroke married the widowed Marchioness de Villette , a niece of Madame Maintenon . He sur- vived her about one year . In 1700 , Henry St. John became M.P. for Wootton Basset ; in 1704 , secretary for war , resigning his ...
... France , Bolingbroke married the widowed Marchioness de Villette , a niece of Madame Maintenon . He sur- vived her about one year . In 1700 , Henry St. John became M.P. for Wootton Basset ; in 1704 , secretary for war , resigning his ...
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... France , and remained there until the death his father , in 1742 , when he retired to his seat at Battersea , and live there until 1751 , when he died of cancer in the face . Bolingbroke wa the esteemed friend of , and watched over the ...
... France , and remained there until the death his father , in 1742 , when he retired to his seat at Battersea , and live there until 1751 , when he died of cancer in the face . Bolingbroke wa the esteemed friend of , and watched over the ...
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... France . The persons I mean are those who read to talk , to shine in conversation , and to impose in company who , having few ideas to vend of their own growth , store their minds with crude un- ruminated facts and sentences ; and hope ...
... France . The persons I mean are those who read to talk , to shine in conversation , and to impose in company who , having few ideas to vend of their own growth , store their minds with crude un- ruminated facts and sentences ; and hope ...
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... France . The Roman had on his side genius and experience cultivated by study : the Briton had genius improved by experience , and no more . The first therefore is not an example of what study can do alone ; but the latter is an example ...
... France . The Roman had on his side genius and experience cultivated by study : the Briton had genius improved by experience , and no more . The first therefore is not an example of what study can do alone ; but the latter is an example ...
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... France it was stipulated , that Peter should not remain within an hundred miles of the state , nor his brothers within the same distance of the city of Florence . On this occasion Guicciardin observes , how dangerous it is to govern ...
... France it was stipulated , that Peter should not remain within an hundred miles of the state , nor his brothers within the same distance of the city of Florence . On this occasion Guicciardin observes , how dangerous it is to govern ...
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