Letters on the Study and Use of HistoryJ.J. Tourneissen, 1788 - 308 pages |
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... favor of the court ; and whatever defignation God makes by the talents he bestows , though it may ferve , which it feldom ever does , to direct the choice of the prince , yet I prefume that it cannot become a reafon to particular men ...
... favor of the court ; and whatever defignation God makes by the talents he bestows , though it may ferve , which it feldom ever does , to direct the choice of the prince , yet I prefume that it cannot become a reafon to particular men ...
Page 149
... favor of their own branch , even on that fide , and made all the enterprises of FERDINAND of Gratz , both before and after his elevation to the empire , the common cause of the house of Austria . What compleated their ruin was this ...
... favor of their own branch , even on that fide , and made all the enterprises of FERDINAND of Gratz , both before and after his elevation to the empire , the common cause of the house of Austria . What compleated their ruin was this ...
Page 156
... favor of France as he defigned they should , even after his death , and at and after the treaties of Weftphalia . He varnished ambition with the most plaufible and popular pretences . The elector of TREVES had put himself under the ...
... favor of France as he defigned they should , even after his death , and at and after the treaties of Weftphalia . He varnished ambition with the most plaufible and popular pretences . The elector of TREVES had put himself under the ...
Page 159
... favor of France , fome years before the treaties of Weftpha- lia . He refused to be neuter , and threatened to take part with Spain , if the French purfued the defign of befieging Dunkirk and Graveline , according • to a concert taken ...
... favor of France , fome years before the treaties of Weftpha- lia . He refused to be neuter , and threatened to take part with Spain , if the French purfued the defign of befieging Dunkirk and Graveline , according • to a concert taken ...
Page 165
... favor of the duke of ANJOU . As she never loft fight of her great object during this time , fo she loft no op- portunity of increafing her power , while she waited for that of fucceeding in her pretenfions . The two branches of Auftria ...
... favor of the duke of ANJOU . As she never loft fight of her great object during this time , fo she loft no op- portunity of increafing her power , while she waited for that of fucceeding in her pretenfions . The two branches of Auftria ...
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ACUSILAUS affiftance againſt France allies almoſt becauſe beſt better cafe caufe cauſe CHARLES the fecond chriſtianity circumſtances confequence county of Burgundy courſe crown defign defire Dutch eftablished emperor engaged England Europe faid fame fecurity feemed ferve fide fince firft firſt fome foon French ftate ftill ftrength ftudy fubjects fucceeded fucceffion fuccefs fuch fufficient fuperior fupport fure fyftem grand alliance greateſt hiftorians himſelf houfe houſe hundred and fixty inftance intereft JOSEPHUS juft king of France king of SPAIN laft laſt leaſt lefs LEWIS the fourteenth lord lordship Low Countries meaſure minifters moſt muſt nation neceffary neceffity obferve occafion oppofition ourſelves party peace perfons PHILIP prefent pretenfions prince principles propofed purpoſe queen raiſed reafon refpect ſeven shew Spaniards Spanish monarchy ſpeak ſpirit ſtate ſtudy of hiſtory ſyſtem thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand feven hundred thouſand fix hundred treaty treaty of Utrecht uſe whilft whole دو
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Page 9 - 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 Tillotson: and the knowledge we acquire by it is a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.
Page 18 - There is scarce any folly or vice more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other; and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the standards of right and wrong, of true and false.
Page 230 - Marlborough was raised to the head of the army, and indeed of the confederacy, where he, a new, a private man, a subject, acquired by merit and by management a more deciding influence, than high birth, confirmed authority, and even the crown of Great Britain, had given to King William. Not only all the parts of that vast machine, the grand alliance, were kept more compact and entire, but a more rapid and vigorous motion was given to the whole, and, instead of languishing or disastrous campaigns,...
Page 7 - The same principle in this instance carries us forward and backward, to future and to past ages. We imagine that the things which affect us must affect posterity ; this sentiment runs through mankind, from Caesar down to the parish-clerk in Pope's Miscellany.
Page 161 - They who are in the rising scale do not immediately feel their strength, nor assume that confidence in it which successful experience gives them afterwards. They who are the most concerned to watch the variations of this balance, misjudge often in the same manner, and from the same prejudices. They continue to dread a power no longer able to hurt them, or they continue to have no apprehensions of a power that grows daily more formidable. Spain verified the first observation at the end of the second...
Page 119 - Till this happen, the profession of the law will scarce deserve to be ranked among the learned professions ; and whenever it happens, one of the vantage grounds, to which men must climb, is metaphysical, and the other historical knowledge.
Page 19 - I might likewise bring several other instances wherein history serves to purge the mind of those national partialities and prejudices that we are apt to contract in our education, and that experience for the most part rather confirms than removes ; because it is for the most part confined, like our education.
Page 11 - ... never become so perfect a copy of Zeno, if he had not passed his life with him ; that Plato, Aristotle, and the other philosophers of that school, profited more by the example, than by the discourse of Socrates.
Page 28 - The excessive ill husbandry practised from the very beginning of king William's reign, and which laid the foundations of all we feel and all we fear, was not the effect of ignorance...
Page 119 - ... the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws ; and they must trace the laws of particular states, especially of their own, from the first rough sketches to the more perfect draughts ; from the first causes or occasions, that produced them, through all the effects good and bad that they produced.