Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... Look at his little treatise entitled " Sophismes Anarchiques . " In that treatise he says , that the atrocities of the Revolution were the natural consequences of the absurd principles on which it was commenced ; -that while the chiefs ...
... Look at his little treatise entitled " Sophismes Anarchiques . " In that treatise he says , that the atrocities of the Revolution were the natural consequences of the absurd principles on which it was commenced ; -that while the chiefs ...
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... look forward with sanguine hope to the future , prevent us from looking back with contempt on the past . We do not flatter our- selves with the notion , that we have attained perfection , and that no more truth remains to be found . We ...
... look forward with sanguine hope to the future , prevent us from looking back with contempt on the past . We do not flatter our- selves with the notion , that we have attained perfection , and that no more truth remains to be found . We ...
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... looks with disdain on the very intellects to which it is owing that those common- places are not still considered as startling paradoxes or damnable heresies . The writer is just the man who , if he had lived in the seventeenth century ...
... looks with disdain on the very intellects to which it is owing that those common- places are not still considered as startling paradoxes or damnable heresies . The writer is just the man who , if he had lived in the seventeenth century ...
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... look at ancient transactions by the light of modern knowledge . Undoubtedly it is among the first duties of an historian to point out the faults of the eminent men of former generations . There are no errors which are so likely to be ...
... look at ancient transactions by the light of modern knowledge . Undoubtedly it is among the first duties of an historian to point out the faults of the eminent men of former generations . There are no errors which are so likely to be ...
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... look at it in connexion with those which preceded and with those which followed it . Each of those great and ever - memorable struggles , - Saxon against Norman , -Villein against Lord , -Protestant against Papist , -Roundhead against ...
... look at it in connexion with those which preceded and with those which followed it . Each of those great and ever - memorable struggles , - Saxon against Norman , -Villein against Lord , -Protestant against Papist , -Roundhead against ...
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