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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... persons I mean are those who read to talk , to shine in conversation , and to impose in company who , having few ideas to vend of their own growth , store their minds with crude un- ruminated facts and sentences ; and hope to supply ...
... persons I mean are those who read to talk , to shine in conversation , and to impose in company who , having few ideas to vend of their own growth , store their minds with crude un- ruminated facts and sentences ; and hope to supply ...
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... 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 agree ...
... 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 agree ...
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... persons who adorn the age we live in , your lordship's correspondent would be joked upon for his project of improving men in virtue and wisdom by the study of history . The general characters of men , it would be said , are determined ...
... persons who adorn the age we live in , your lordship's correspondent would be joked upon for his project of improving men in virtue and wisdom by the study of history . The general characters of men , it would be said , are determined ...
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... persons who pretend that inclinations cannot be restrained , nor habits corrected , against our natural bent , would be the first perhaps to prove in certain cases the contrary . A fortune at court , or the favours of a lady , have ...
... persons who pretend that inclinations cannot be restrained , nor habits corrected , against our natural bent , would be the first perhaps to prove in certain cases the contrary . A fortune at court , or the favours of a lady , have ...
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... person with that prince . The resolution appears in history imprudent and almost desperate ; were we informed of the secret reasons on which this great man acted , it would appear very possibly a wise and safe measure . It succeeded ...
... person with that prince . The resolution appears in history imprudent and almost desperate ; were we informed of the secret reasons on which this great man acted , it would appear very possibly a wise and safe measure . It succeeded ...
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