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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... learned world , I am very willing to tell you mine . But as it is hard to recover a thread of thought long ago laid aside , and impossible to prove some things and explain others , without the assistance of many books which I have not ...
... learned world , I am very willing to tell you mine . But as it is hard to recover a thread of thought long ago laid aside , and impossible to prove some things and explain others , without the assistance of many books which I have not ...
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... learned lives ; for all the re- searches into antiquity , for all the systems of chronology and history , that we owe to the immense labours of a Scaliger , a Bochart , a Peta- vius , an Usher , and even a Marsham . The same materials ...
... learned lives ; for all the re- searches into antiquity , for all the systems of chronology and history , that we owe to the immense labours of a Scaliger , a Bochart , a Peta- vius , an Usher , and even a Marsham . The same materials ...
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... learned persons themselves confess . Julius Africanus , Eusebius , and George the monk , opened the prin- cipal sources of all this science ; but they corrupted the waters . Their point of view was to make profane history and chronology ...
... learned persons themselves confess . Julius Africanus , Eusebius , and George the monk , opened the prin- cipal sources of all this science ; but they corrupted the waters . Their point of view was to make profane history and chronology ...
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... learned , reap from the study of history ; and yet the study of history seems to me , of all other , the most proper to train us up to private and public virtue . " " Your lordship may very well be ready by this time , and after so much ...
... learned , reap from the study of history ; and yet the study of history seems to me , of all other , the most proper to train us up to private and public virtue . " " Your lordship may very well be ready by this time , and after so much ...
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... learned this way of commanding ! But again ; the force of ex- amples is not confined to those alone that pass immediately under our sight : the examples that memory suggests have the same effect in their degree , and a habit of ...
... learned this way of commanding ! But again ; the force of ex- amples is not confined to those alone that pass immediately under our sight : the examples that memory suggests have the same effect in their degree , and a habit of ...
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