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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... actions of the dead , to fire the living , to excite them to imitate and even to emulate their great fore- fathers . The success answered the design . The virtue of one genera- tion was tranfused by the magic of example into several ...
... actions of the dead , to fire the living , to excite them to imitate and even to emulate their great fore- fathers . The success answered the design . The virtue of one genera- tion was tranfused by the magic of example into several ...
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... actions in so pompous a style , that the account becomes burlesque . He laughs indeed in one of his letters to Atticus at his generalship ; but if we turn to those he writ to Cœlius Rufus and to Cato upon this occasion , or to those ...
... actions in so pompous a style , that the account becomes burlesque . He laughs indeed in one of his letters to Atticus at his generalship ; but if we turn to those he writ to Cœlius Rufus and to Cato upon this occasion , or to those ...
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... actions are by immediate objects . Many very conversant in history would be cited , who have proved ill men , or bad politicians ; and a long roll would be produced of others who have arrived at a great pitch of pri- vate and public ...
... actions are by immediate objects . Many very conversant in history would be cited , who have proved ill men , or bad politicians ; and a long roll would be produced of others who have arrived at a great pitch of pri- vate and public ...
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... actions , and measures of conduct , which the customs of different countries , the manners of different ages , and the circum- stances of different conjunctures , have appropriated , as it were , it is always ridiculous , or imprudent ...
... actions , and measures of conduct , which the customs of different countries , the manners of different ages , and the circum- stances of different conjunctures , have appropriated , as it were , it is always ridiculous , or imprudent ...
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... action and observation . History is the ancient author : experience is the modern language . We form our taste on the first ; we translate the sense and reason , we transfuse the spirit and force : but we imitate only the par- ticular ...
... action and observation . History is the ancient author : experience is the modern language . We form our taste on the first ; we translate the sense and reason , we transfuse the spirit and force : but we imitate only the par- ticular ...
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