Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. degree of fairness in his intellect . Indifferent to truth in the transactions of life , he was honestly devoted to truth in the researches of speculation . Wanton cruelty was not in his nature ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. degree of fairness in his intellect . Indifferent to truth in the transactions of life , he was honestly devoted to truth in the researches of speculation . Wanton cruelty was not in his nature ...
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... truth Livy is not an historian on whom implicit reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have possessed considerable means of information . And the first Decade , to which Machiavelli has confined himself , is scarcely ...
... truth Livy is not an historian on whom implicit reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have possessed considerable means of information . And the first Decade , to which Machiavelli has confined himself , is scarcely ...
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... truth , eager to build a system , but careless of collecting those materials out of which alone a sound and durable system can be built , the lively President constructed theories as rapidly and as slightly as card - houses , no sooner ...
... truth , eager to build a system , but careless of collecting those materials out of which alone a sound and durable system can be built , the lively President constructed theories as rapidly and as slightly as card - houses , no sooner ...
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... truth . In the inductive sciences again , the law is progress . Every day furnishes new facts , and thus brings theory nearer and nearer to perfection . There is no chance that , either in the purely demonstrative , or in the purely ...
... truth . In the inductive sciences again , the law is progress . Every day furnishes new facts , and thus brings theory nearer and nearer to perfection . There is no chance that , either in the purely demonstrative , or in the purely ...
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... truth all the philosophers , ancient and modern , who have attempted , without the help of revelation to prove the immortality of man , from Plato down to Franklin , appear to us to have failed deplorably . Then , again , all the great ...
... truth all the philosophers , ancient and modern , who have attempted , without the help of revelation to prove the immortality of man , from Plato down to Franklin , appear to us to have failed deplorably . Then , again , all the great ...
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