Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... human being ever possessed . It would have been strange indeed , if you had asked for anything that was not to be found in that immense storehouse . The article which you required was not only there . It was ready . It was in its own ...
... human being ever possessed . It would have been strange indeed , if you had asked for anything that was not to be found in that immense storehouse . The article which you required was not only there . It was ready . It was in its own ...
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... human patience . It would be unjust to the writer not to present our readers , few of whom , we suspect , will be his readers , with a sample of his eloquence . We will treat them with a short sentence , and will engage that they shall ...
... human patience . It would be unjust to the writer not to present our readers , few of whom , we suspect , will be his readers , with a sample of his eloquence . We will treat them with a short sentence , and will engage that they shall ...
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... human intellects were deluded by the gibberish of the astrologer and the alchymist ; and just so there was a time when the most enlightened and virtuous statesmen thought it the first duty of a government to persecute heretics , to ...
... human intellects were deluded by the gibberish of the astrologer and the alchymist ; and just so there was a time when the most enlightened and virtuous statesmen thought it the first duty of a government to persecute heretics , to ...
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... human mind , or in the mode of discovering truth , we are reformers : we are on the side of progress . From the great advances which European society has made , during the last four centuries , in every species of knowledge , we infer ...
... human mind , or in the mode of discovering truth , we are reformers : we are on the side of progress . From the great advances which European society has made , during the last four centuries , in every species of knowledge , we infer ...
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... human race that the me- mory of such men should be had in reverence , and that they should be supported against the scorn and hatred of their contemporaries , by the hope of leaving a great and 34 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... human race that the me- mory of such men should be had in reverence , and that they should be supported against the scorn and hatred of their contemporaries , by the hope of leaving a great and 34 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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