Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... civil tumult . Courage was now no longer necessary even to the mili- tary character . Men grew old in camps , and acquired the highest renown by their warlike achievements , without being once required to face serious danger . The ...
... civil tumult . Courage was now no longer necessary even to the mili- tary character . Men grew old in camps , and acquired the highest renown by their warlike achievements , without being once required to face serious danger . The ...
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... civil than military qualifications . Hence , while courage was the point of honour in other countries , ingenuity became the point of honour in Italy . From these principles were deduced , by processes strictly analogous , two opposite ...
... civil than military qualifications . Hence , while courage was the point of honour in other countries , ingenuity became the point of honour in Italy . From these principles were deduced , by processes strictly analogous , two opposite ...
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... civil courage , in perseverance , in presence of mind , those barbarous warriors who were foremost in the battle or the breach , were far his inferiors . Even the dangers which he avoided , with a caution almost pusillanimous , never ...
... civil courage , in perseverance , in presence of mind , those barbarous warriors who were foremost in the battle or the breach , were far his inferiors . Even the dangers which he avoided , with a caution almost pusillanimous , never ...
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... civil war and the Protectorate , a still deeper fall was at hand . Hitherto our literature had been idiomatic . In mind , as in situation , we had been islanders . The revolutions in our taste , like the revolutions in our government ...
... civil war and the Protectorate , a still deeper fall was at hand . Hitherto our literature had been idiomatic . In mind , as in situation , we had been islanders . The revolutions in our taste , like the revolutions in our government ...
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... civil wars in the abridgment of Goldsmith , vanishes , when com- pared with the immense mass of facts respecting which both are equally silent . ( No picture , then , and no history , can present us with the whole truth : but those are ...
... civil wars in the abridgment of Goldsmith , vanishes , when com- pared with the immense mass of facts respecting which both are equally silent . ( No picture , then , and no history , can present us with the whole truth : but those are ...
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