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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... necessary to be observed in the study of history . They were very different from those which writers on the same subject have recommended , " and which are commonly practised . But I confess to your lordship that this neither gave me ...
... necessary to be observed in the study of history . They were very different from those which writers on the same subject have recommended , " and which are commonly practised . But I confess to your lordship that this neither gave me ...
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... necessary . The school of example , my lord , is the world ; and the masters of this school are history and experience . I am far from contending that the former is preferable to the latter . I think upon the whole other- wise : but ...
... necessary . The school of example , my lord , is the world ; and the masters of this school are history and experience . I am far from contending that the former is preferable to the latter . I think upon the whole other- wise : but ...
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... necessary to be cultivated , and the prosperity of all societies , as well as the grandeur of some , depends upon it so much , that orators by their eloquence , and poets by their enthusiasm , have endeavoured to work up this precept of ...
... necessary to be cultivated , and the prosperity of all societies , as well as the grandeur of some , depends upon it so much , that orators by their eloquence , and poets by their enthusiasm , have endeavoured to work up this precept of ...
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... necessary and practicable ; but his mal - administration , as well as all his preceding conduct , was caused by his bigot attach- ment to popery and to the principles of arbitrary government , from which no warning could divert him ...
... necessary and practicable ; but his mal - administration , as well as all his preceding conduct , was caused by his bigot attach- ment to popery and to the principles of arbitrary government , from which no warning could divert him ...
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... necessary consequence of national corruption . These two examples explain sufficiently what they are intended to explain . It only remains therefore upon this head , to observe the difference between the two manners in which history ...
... necessary consequence of national corruption . These two examples explain sufficiently what they are intended to explain . It only remains therefore upon this head , to observe the difference between the two manners in which history ...
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