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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... effect in their degree , and a habit of recalling them will soon produce the habit of imitating them . In the same epistle from whence I cited a passage just now , Seneca says that Cleanthes had never become so perfect a copy of Zeno ...
... effect in their degree , and a habit of recalling them will soon produce the habit of imitating them . In the same epistle from whence I cited a passage just now , Seneca says that Cleanthes had never become so perfect a copy of Zeno ...
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... effects as several have done , from Tully down to Casaubon , La Mothe le Vayer , and other modern pedants . When Tully informs us in the second book of his Tusculan disputations , that the first Scipio Africanus had always in his hands ...
... effects as several have done , from Tully down to Casaubon , La Mothe le Vayer , and other modern pedants . When Tully informs us in the second book of his Tusculan disputations , that the first Scipio Africanus had always in his hands ...
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... effect than declamation , or song , or the dry ethics of mere philosophy . In fine , to converse with historians is to keep good company : many of them were excellent men , and those who were not such have taken care however to appear ...
... effect than declamation , or song , or the dry ethics of mere philosophy . In fine , to converse with historians is to keep good company : many of them were excellent men , and those who were not such have taken care however to appear ...
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... effect of our own experience , is confined to fewer objects , and is made at our own expense . To state the account fairly therefore between these two improvements ; though the latter be the more valuable , yet allowance being made on ...
... effect of our own experience , is confined to fewer objects , and is made at our own expense . To state the account fairly therefore between these two improvements ; though the latter be the more valuable , yet allowance being made on ...
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... effects , immediate or remote . We are cast back , as it were , into former ages : we live with the men who lived before us , and we inhabit countries that we never saw . Place is enlarged , and time prolonged , in this manner ; so that ...
... effects , immediate or remote . We are cast back , as it were , into former ages : we live with the men who lived before us , and we inhabit countries that we never saw . Place is enlarged , and time prolonged , in this manner ; so that ...
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