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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... never intended it should be made the principal , much less the sole , object of their application . The true and proper object of this application , is a constant improvement in private and in public virtue . An application to any study ...
... never intended it should be made the principal , much less the sole , object of their application . The true and proper object of this application , is a constant improvement in private and in public virtue . An application to any study ...
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... never become so perfect a copy of Zeno , if he had not passed his life with him ; that Plato , Aris- totle , and the other philosophers of that school , profited more by the example , than by the discourse of Socrates . [ But here by ...
... never become so perfect a copy of Zeno , if he had not passed his life with him ; that Plato , Aris- totle , and the other philosophers of that school , profited more by the example , than by the discourse of Socrates . [ But here by ...
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... never shine with the full lustre , nor shed the full influence he is capable of , unless to his own expe- rience he adds the experience of other men and other ages . Genius , without the improvement at least of experience , is what ...
... never shine with the full lustre , nor shed the full influence he is capable of , unless to his own expe- rience he adds the experience of other men and other ages . Genius , without the improvement at least of experience , is what ...
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... never read Xenophon most certainly , nor the relation perhaps of any modern wars ; but he served in his youth under Monsieur de Turenne , and I have heard that he was taken notice of in those early days by that great man . He afterwards ...
... never read Xenophon most certainly , nor the relation perhaps of any modern wars ; but he served in his youth under Monsieur de Turenne , and I have heard that he was taken notice of in those early days by that great man . He afterwards ...
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... never saw . Place is enlarged , and time prolonged , in this manner ; so that the man who applies himself early to the study of history , may acquire in a few years , and before he sets his foot abroad in the world , not only a more ...
... never saw . Place is enlarged , and time prolonged , in this manner ; so that the man who applies himself early to the study of history , may acquire in a few years , and before he sets his foot abroad in the world , not only a more ...
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