The Contemporary Review, 37. köideA. Strahan, 1880 |
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... writing history , which are as hollow and superficial as is the Church movement , and yet , in the country of almighty Fashion , these have become as widely dominant as Ritualism . It would be very unjust , however , to imply for a ...
... writing history , which are as hollow and superficial as is the Church movement , and yet , in the country of almighty Fashion , these have become as widely dominant as Ritualism . It would be very unjust , however , to imply for a ...
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... writers of history , " Lecky shrewdly observes , " and the misfortune of many statesmen , that the latter are often ... writing history , has learnt from the German philosophy of history to place things in the true point of view . • We ...
... writers of history , " Lecky shrewdly observes , " and the misfortune of many statesmen , that the latter are often ... writing history , has learnt from the German philosophy of history to place things in the true point of view . • We ...
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... writing appeared ten years after Herder's " Fragmente , " and certainly did not produce the general and overpowering impression which the first essay of the German writer made . It was a parody of Bolingbroke and of his mannerism . The ...
... writing appeared ten years after Herder's " Fragmente , " and certainly did not produce the general and overpowering impression which the first essay of the German writer made . It was a parody of Bolingbroke and of his mannerism . The ...
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... writer to Montesquieu and Hume , he is superior to both in his insight into the true nature of the British Constitution , In this respect , again , there is the same analogy as between Herder and Lessing . Burke was as little of a ...
... writer to Montesquieu and Hume , he is superior to both in his insight into the true nature of the British Constitution , In this respect , again , there is the same analogy as between Herder and Lessing . Burke was as little of a ...
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... writing - just as in our day men live and think in newspapers . But how completely different was this English conversation from the French ; how much more solid , more humorous , more matter - of - fact ; and who could vie with Johnson ...
... writing - just as in our day men live and think in newspapers . But how completely different was this English conversation from the French ; how much more solid , more humorous , more matter - of - fact ; and who could vie with Johnson ...
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