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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... pass for authentic extremely precarious , as 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 ...
... pass for authentic extremely precarious , as 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 ...
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... pass immediately under our sight : the examples that memory suggests have the same effect in their degree , and a habit of recalling them will soon produce the habit of imitating them . In the same epistle from whence I cited a passage ...
... pass immediately under our sight : the examples that memory suggests have the same effect in their degree , and a habit of recalling them will soon produce the habit of imitating them . In the same epistle from whence I cited a passage ...
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... pass on Josephus ; for in him I believe I read it ; but surely the love of our country is a lesson of reason , not an institution of nature . Education and habit , obligation and interest , attach us to it , not in- stinct . It is ...
... pass on Josephus ; for in him I believe I read it ; but surely the love of our country is a lesson of reason , not an institution of nature . Education and habit , obligation and interest , attach us to it , not in- stinct . It is ...
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... pass for a hero , but I am sure he would pass for a madman . Even these examples however are of use : they excite us at least to venture our lives freely in the service of our country ; by pro- posing to our imitation men who devoted ...
... pass for a hero , but I am sure he would pass for a madman . Even these examples however are of use : they excite us at least to venture our lives freely in the service of our country ; by pro- posing to our imitation men who devoted ...
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... pass for truths . Many such instances may be collected from Moraccio's refutation of the koran , and Relandus has published a very valuable treatise on purpose to refute these calumnies , and to justify the Mahometans . Does not this ...
... pass for truths . Many such instances may be collected from Moraccio's refutation of the koran , and Relandus has published a very valuable treatise on purpose to refute these calumnies , and to justify the Mahometans . Does not this ...
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