Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1853 - 744 páginas |
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... course of oppression and treachery . Let those who applaud the Revolution and con- demn the rebellion , mention one act of James II . , to which a parallel is not to be found in the history of his father . Let them lay their fin- gers ...
... course of oppression and treachery . Let those who applaud the Revolution and con- demn the rebellion , mention one act of James II . , to which a parallel is not to be found in the history of his father . Let them lay their fin- gers ...
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... course left to a government is to form that class into a stand- ing army . It is scarcely possible , that men can pass their lives in the service of a single state , without feeling some interest in its greatness . Its victories are ...
... course left to a government is to form that class into a stand- ing army . It is scarcely possible , that men can pass their lives in the service of a single state , without feeling some interest in its greatness . Its victories are ...
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... course which he pursued , and the effect which he produced , depended less on his personal qualities than on the circumstances in which he was placed . Those who have read history with discrimination know the fal- lacy of those ...
... course which he pursued , and the effect which he produced , depended less on his personal qualities than on the circumstances in which he was placed . Those who have read history with discrimination know the fal- lacy of those ...
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... course of many gene- rations arrived . They thus almost wholly missed the period of original invention . The only Latin poets whose writings exhibit much vigour of imagination are Lucretius and Ca- | cious , 40 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS ...
... course of many gene- rations arrived . They thus almost wholly missed the period of original invention . The only Latin poets whose writings exhibit much vigour of imagination are Lucretius and Ca- | cious , 40 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS ...
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... course of things , have effected a ductions of almost all the professed authors . similar reform in the sonnet and the ode . The The reigning taste was so bad , that the success rigour of the victorious sectaries had relaxed . of a ...
... course of things , have effected a ductions of almost all the professed authors . similar reform in the sonnet and the ode . The The reigning taste was so bad , that the success rigour of the victorious sectaries had relaxed . of a ...
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