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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... becoming a nuisance very often to society , in proportion to the progress they make . The former do not improve their reading to any good purpose : the latter pervert it to a very bad one , and grow in impertinence as they increase in ...
... becoming a nuisance very often to society , in proportion to the progress they make . The former do not improve their reading to any good purpose : the latter pervert it to a very bad one , and grow in impertinence as they increase in ...
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... becoming great scholars at the expense of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity . All these mistake the true drift of study , and the true use of history . Nature gave us curiosity to excite the industry of our minds ...
... becoming great scholars at the expense of groping all our lives in the dark mazes of antiquity . All these mistake the true drift of study , and the true use of history . Nature gave us curiosity to excite the industry of our minds ...
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... becomes persuasive . What pity it is that so few princes have learned this way of commanding ! But again ; the force ... become so perfect a copy of Zeno , if he had not passed his life with him ; that Plato , Aris- totle , and the other ...
... becomes persuasive . What pity it is that so few princes have learned this way of commanding ! But again ; the force ... become so perfect a copy of Zeno , if he had not passed his life with him ; that Plato , Aris- totle , and the other ...
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... becomes burlesque . He laughs indeed in one of his letters to Atticus at his generalship ; but if we turn to those he writ to Cœlius Rufus and to Cato upon this occasion , or to those wherein he expresses to Atticus his resentment ...
... becomes burlesque . He laughs indeed in one of his letters to Atticus at his generalship ; but if we turn to those he writ to Cœlius Rufus and to Cato upon this occasion , or to those wherein he expresses to Atticus his resentment ...
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... become habitual in every man who applies himself early to the study of history as the study of philosophy , with the intention of being wiser and better , without the affectation of being more learned . The temper of the mind is formed ...
... become habitual in every man who applies himself early to the study of history as the study of philosophy , with the intention of being wiser and better , without the affectation of being more learned . The temper of the mind is formed ...
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Page 33 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 151 - The same azure vault, bespangled with stars, will be everywhere spread over our heads. There is no part of the world from whence we may not admire those planets which roll, like ours, in different orbits round the same central sun ; from whence we may not discover an object still more stupendous, that army of fixed stars hung up in the immense space...
Page 228 - ... this decency, this grace, this propriety of manners to character, is so essential to princes in particular, that whenever it is neglected their virtues lose a great degree of lustre, and their defects acquire much aggravation. Nay more; by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a sufficient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray them into failings, their failings into vices, and their vices into habits unworthy of princes and unworthy of men.
Page 165 - ... accompanies them, and enlightens even the obscurity of their retreat. If they take a part in public life, the effect is never indifferent. They either appear like ministers of divine vengeance, and their course through the world is marked by desolation and oppression, by poverty and servitude: or they are the guardian angels of the country they inhabit, busy to avert even the most distant evil, and to maintain or to procure peace, plenty, and the greatest of human blessings, liberty.
Page 199 - Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man : without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Page 147 - I placed so, that she might snatch them away without giving me any disturbance. I kept a great interval between me and them. She took them, but she could not tear them from me. No man suffers by bad fortune, but he who has been deceived by good. If we grow fond of her gifts, fancy that they belong to us, and are perpetually to remain with us, if we lean upon them, and expect to be considered for them; we shall sink into all the bitterness of grief, as soon as these false and transitory benefits pass...
Page 67 - The dominion of the emperor being less supportable than that of the Turks, this unhappy people opened a door to the latter to infest the empire, instead of making their country what it had been before, a barrier against the Ottoman power. France became a sure, though secret ally of the Turks, as well as the Hungarians, and has found her account in it, by keeping the emperor in perpetual alarms on that side, while she has ravaged the empire and the Low Countries on the other.
Page 32 - To what purpose sh uld he husband his time, or learn architecture ? he has no design to build. But then to what purpose all these quarries of stone, all these mountains of sand and lime, all these forests of oak and deal ? ' Magno impendio temporum, magna alienarum aurium molestia, ' laudatio haec constat, O hominem litteratum ! Simus hoc titulo 'rusticiore contenti, O virum bonum...
Page 8 - Now, nothing can contribute more to prevent us from being tainted with this vanity than to accustom ourselves early to contemplate the different nations of the earth in that vast map which history spreads before us, in their rise and their fall, in their barbarous and civilised states, in the likeness and unlikeness of them all to one another, and of each to itself.
Page 13 - Your lordship sees, not only how much a due reflection upon the experience of other ages and countries would have pointed out national corruption, as the natural and necessary consequence of investing the crown with the management of so great a revenue ; but also the loss of liberty, as the natural and necessary consequence of national corruption.