Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... moral elevation . But his talents , though not brilliant , were of an eminently useful kind ; and his principles , though not inflexible , were not more relaxed than those of his associates and competitors . He had a cool temper , a ...
... moral elevation . But his talents , though not brilliant , were of an eminently useful kind ; and his principles , though not inflexible , were not more relaxed than those of his associates and competitors . He had a cool temper , a ...
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... moral cha- racter as Dr. Nares has extolled it is absurd . It would be equally absurd to represent him as a corrupt , rapacious , and bad - hearted man . He paid great atten- tion to the interests of the state , and great attention also ...
... moral cha- racter as Dr. Nares has extolled it is absurd . It would be equally absurd to represent him as a corrupt , rapacious , and bad - hearted man . He paid great atten- tion to the interests of the state , and great attention also ...
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... moral revolution was effected , a revolution the consequences of which were felt , not only in the cabinets of princes , but at half the firesides in Christendom . He was born when the great religious schism was just commencing . He ...
... moral revolution was effected , a revolution the consequences of which were felt , not only in the cabinets of princes , but at half the firesides in Christendom . He was born when the great religious schism was just commencing . He ...
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... morality were about to perish with the prejudices with which they had been long and intimately associated ... moral boundaries . Nations made war on each other with new arms , with arms which no fortifications , however strong ...
... morality were about to perish with the prejudices with which they had been long and intimately associated ... moral boundaries . Nations made war on each other with new arms , with arms which no fortifications , however strong ...
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... moral freedom , firm union , may supply in a great measure the defects of the worst representative system . A people whose education and habits are such , that , in every quarter of the world , they rise above the mass of those with ...
... moral freedom , firm union , may supply in a great measure the defects of the worst representative system . A people whose education and habits are such , that , in every quarter of the world , they rise above the mass of those with ...
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