Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the Close of the American Revolution, Band 1H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... appears to me to be the genuine and proper idea of a course of lectures on modern . history . But to this plan , the obvious objection was , its extent and its difficulty . The great Lord Bacon did not find himself unworthily employed ...
... appears to me to be the genuine and proper idea of a course of lectures on modern . history . But to this plan , the obvious objection was , its extent and its difficulty . The great Lord Bacon did not find himself unworthily employed ...
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... appear , will be found to comprehend a task of more than sufficient difficulty for me , and be very adequate , as I conceive , to all the purposes which lectures can attempt to accomplish for you . For with respect to myself , what must ...
... appear , will be found to comprehend a task of more than sufficient difficulty for me , and be very adequate , as I conceive , to all the purposes which lectures can attempt to accomplish for you . For with respect to myself , what must ...
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... appear to have been myself affected , and these must , all of them , become the topics of your own reflection and examination . It is , therefore , already evident that we have , each of us , in our several provinces , enough to perform ...
... appear to have been myself affected , and these must , all of them , become the topics of your own reflection and examination . It is , therefore , already evident that we have , each of us , in our several provinces , enough to perform ...
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... appears and retires too rapidly to be surveyed , and when the whole vision has passed by , as soon it does , a trace of it is scarcely found to remain . Were I to look from an eminence over a country which I had never before seen , I ...
... appears and retires too rapidly to be surveyed , and when the whole vision has passed by , as soon it does , a trace of it is scarcely found to remain . Were I to look from an eminence over a country which I had never before seen , I ...
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... appear in any positive shape , and will chiefly operate in saving my hearers from that very occupation of time , which has so interrupted the advance of my own exertions . I may point out to others , as paths to be avoided , paths where ...
... appear in any positive shape , and will chiefly operate in saving my hearers from that very occupation of time , which has so interrupted the advance of my own exertions . I may point out to others , as paths to be avoided , paths where ...
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