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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... virtue . An application to any study that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and better citizens , is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness , to use an expression of Tillot- son ; and the ...
... virtue . An application to any study that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and better citizens , is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness , to use an expression of Tillot- son ; and the ...
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... virtue of one genera- tion was tranfused by the magic of example into several ; and a spirit of heroism was maintained through many ages of that commonwealth . Now these are so many instances of the force of remote example , and from ...
... virtue of one genera- tion was tranfused by the magic of example into several ; and a spirit of heroism was maintained through many ages of that commonwealth . Now these are so many instances of the force of remote example , and from ...
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... virtue represented in that admirable picture , the Cyropædia , were proper to entertain a soul that was fraught with virtue , and Cyrus was worthy to be imitated by Scipio . So Selim emulated Cæsar , whose commentaries were translated ...
... virtue represented in that admirable picture , the Cyropædia , were proper to entertain a soul that was fraught with virtue , and Cyrus was worthy to be imitated by Scipio . So Selim emulated Cæsar , whose commentaries were translated ...
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... virtue , in all the arts of peace and achievements of war , if the views of such men had been enlarged , and their sentiments ennobled , by acquiring that cast of thought and that temper of mind , which will grow up and become habitual ...
... virtue , in all the arts of peace and achievements of war , if the views of such men had been enlarged , and their sentiments ennobled , by acquiring that cast of thought and that temper of mind , which will grow up and become habitual ...
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... virtue and vice are continually represented to us in the colours that belong properly to them , before we enter on another scene , where " virtue and vice are too often confounded , and what.
... virtue and vice are continually represented to us in the colours that belong properly to them , before we enter on another scene , where " virtue and vice are too often confounded , and what.
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