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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... given me since , any distrust of them . I do not affect singularity . On the contrary I think that a due defer- ence is to be paid to received opinions , and that a due compliance with received customs is to be held ; though both the ...
... given me since , any distrust of them . I do not affect singularity . On the contrary I think that a due defer- ence is to be paid to received opinions , and that a due compliance with received customs is to be held ; though both the ...
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... given them to acquire it : and Littleton exerted all the genius he had when he made a dictionary , though Stephens did not . They de- serve encouragement , however , whilst they continue to compile , and neither affect wit , nor presume ...
... given them to acquire it : and Littleton exerted all the genius he had when he made a dictionary , though Stephens did not . They de- serve encouragement , however , whilst they continue to compile , and neither affect wit , nor presume ...
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... given to them : they have supposed , they have guessed , they have joined disjointed passages of different authors , and broken traditions of uncertain originals , of various people , and of centuries remote from one another as well as ...
... given to them : they have supposed , they have guessed , they have joined disjointed passages of different authors , and broken traditions of uncertain originals , of various people , and of centuries remote from one another as well as ...
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... given in a superior degree . But such examples are very rare ; and when they happen , it will be still true , that they would have had fewer blemishes , and would have come nearer to the perfection of private and public virtue , in all ...
... given in a superior degree . But such examples are very rare ; and when they happen , it will be still true , that they would have had fewer blemishes , and would have come nearer to the perfection of private and public virtue , in all ...
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... given to women , for which anecdote we have , if I mistake not , the authority of Polybius , as well as some verses of Nævius preserved by A. Gellius , had been educated by Olympias at the court of Philip , it is improbable that he ...
... given to women , for which anecdote we have , if I mistake not , the authority of Polybius , as well as some verses of Nævius preserved by A. Gellius , had been educated by Olympias at the court of Philip , it is improbable that he ...
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