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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... 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 learning . I think I have known most of the first kind in England , and most of the last in ...
... 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 learning . I think I have known most of the first kind in England , and most of the last in ...
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... former letter . The love of history seems inseparable from human nature , because it seems inseparable from self - love . The same principle in this in- stance carries us forward and backward , to future and to past ages . We imagine ...
... former letter . The love of history seems inseparable from human nature , because it seems inseparable from self - love . The same principle in this in- stance carries us forward and backward , to future and to past ages . We imagine ...
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... former is preferable to the latter . I think upon the whole other- wise : but this I say , that the former is absolutely necessary to prepare us for the latter , and to accompany us whilst we are under the dis- cipline of the latter ...
... former is preferable to the latter . I think upon the whole other- wise : but this I say , that the former is absolutely necessary to prepare us for the latter , and to accompany us whilst we are under the dis- cipline of the latter ...
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... former governor of Cilicia , even in military merit , arose from the different conjuncture alone ? and that Lucullus could not have done in Cilicia at that time more than he himself did ? Cicero had read and questioned at least as much ...
... former governor of Cilicia , even in military merit , arose from the different conjuncture alone ? and that Lucullus could not have done in Cilicia at that time more than he himself did ? Cicero had read and questioned at least as much ...
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... former will rise in proportion . ' I have re- ' corded these things , ' says Polybius , after giving an account of the defeat of Regulus , ' that they who read these commentaries may be ' rendered better by them ; for all men have two ...
... former will rise in proportion . ' I have re- ' corded these things , ' says Polybius , after giving an account of the defeat of Regulus , ' that they who read these commentaries may be ' rendered better by them ; for all men have two ...
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