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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... becoming a nuisance very often to society , in proportion to the progress they make . The former do not improve their reading to any good purpose : the latter pervert it to a very bad one , and grow in impertinence as they increase in ...
... becoming a nuisance very often to society , in proportion to the progress they make . The former do not improve their reading to any good purpose : the latter pervert it to a very bad one , and grow in impertinence as they increase in ...
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... becoming great scholars at the expense of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity . All these mistake the true drift of study , and the true use of history . Nature gave us curiosity to excite the industry of our minds ...
... becoming great scholars at the expense of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity . All these mistake the true drift of study , and the true use of history . Nature gave us curiosity to excite the industry of our minds ...
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... becomes persuasive . What pity it is that so few princes have learned this way of commanding ! But again ; the force ... become so perfect a copy of Zeno , if he had not passed his life with him ; that Plato , Aris- totle , and the other ...
... becomes persuasive . What pity it is that so few princes have learned this way of commanding ! But again ; the force ... become so perfect a copy of Zeno , if he had not passed his life with him ; that Plato , Aris- totle , and the other ...
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... 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 wherein he expresses to Atticus his resentment ...
... 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 wherein he expresses to Atticus his resentment ...
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... become habitual in every man who applies himself early to the study of history as the study of philosophy , with the intention of being wiser and better , without the affectation of being more learned . The temper of the mind is formed ...
... become habitual in every man who applies himself early to the study of history as the study of philosophy , with the intention of being wiser and better , without the affectation of being more learned . The temper of the mind is formed ...
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