Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution, Հատոր 1J. Owen, 1843 |
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... reasons by which it has been prompted . He is neither the champion of a school , nor the slave of a theory ; he never talks of optimism or of perfectibility ; he takes facts as they are presented to him , analyses , combines , and ...
... reasons by which it has been prompted . He is neither the champion of a school , nor the slave of a theory ; he never talks of optimism or of perfectibility ; he takes facts as they are presented to him , analyses , combines , and ...
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... I could have attempted to execute it , in any manner , however imper- fect and inadequate to my wishes . Having mentioned this reason , it is unnecessary to mention others , which might also have induced me to form 2 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
... I could have attempted to execute it , in any manner , however imper- fect and inadequate to my wishes . Having mentioned this reason , it is unnecessary to mention others , which might also have induced me to form 2 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE .
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... reasons for my preference , and must therefore read and ex- amine many . In the next place , I must , from the endless detail of Euro- pean transactions , direct the attention of my hearers to such particular trains in these ...
... reasons for my preference , and must therefore read and ex- amine many . In the next place , I must , from the endless detail of Euro- pean transactions , direct the attention of my hearers to such particular trains in these ...
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... reason why lectures on the subject of history must always be found , at the time of delivery , more or less ... reasons of my preference , though I give them , cannot be estimated by my hearers , till the references I propose have been ...
... reason why lectures on the subject of history must always be found , at the time of delivery , more or less ... reasons of my preference , though I give them , cannot be estimated by my hearers , till the references I propose have been ...
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... reason for concluding that no judgment can be formed . It is impossible to say in general , that explanations always can be given , or never can be given ; each particular point be- comes a particular question , to be decided on by its ...
... reason for concluding that no judgment can be formed . It is impossible to say in general , that explanations always can be given , or never can be given ; each particular point be- comes a particular question , to be decided on by its ...
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Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern ..., Հատոր 1 William Smyth Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1843 |
Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern ..., Հատոր 1 William Smyth Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1841 |
Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern ..., Հատոր 1 William Smyth Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1840 |
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Էջ 10 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously (carefully), and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Էջ 192 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Էջ 28 - Alii immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines.
Էջ 162 - ... the great objects for which political society was at first founded by men, which the people have a perpetual and unalienable right to recall, and which no time, nor precedent, nor statute, nor positive institution ought to deter them from keeping ever uppermost in their thoughts and attention.
Էջ 379 - Government established by law or ancient custom ; and without doubt, the major part of that body consisted of men who had no mind to break the peace of the kingdom, or to make any considerable alteration in the Government of Church or State...
Էջ 349 - ... him, that is, dominion and power; for he is not a king in whom will and not the law doth rule, and therefore he ought to be under the law.
Էջ 80 - Their poverty extorted from their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil.
Էջ 248 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord ; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire ; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Էջ 369 - Btar-Chamber enlarge their jurisdictions to a vast extent, ' holding (as Thucydides said of the Athenians) for honourable that which pleased and for just that which profited.' And being the same persons in several rooms, grew both courts of law to determine...
Էջ 349 - And thus, being loving and faithful-hearted, I do wish to be conceived in fear of God and of love of our prince and State ; for we are incorporated into this place to serve God and all England, and not to be time-servers, as humour-feeders, as cancers that would pierce the bone, or as flatterers that would fain beguile all the world, and so worthy to be condemned both of God and man ; but let us show ourselves a people endued with faith, I mean a lively faith that bringeth forth good works, and not...