Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 8
... may have been his general character , did not at least affect a love of letters and of the arts . Knowledge and public prosperity continued to advance together . Both attained their meridian in the age of 8 Macaulay's Essays.
... may have been his general character , did not at least affect a love of letters and of the arts . Knowledge and public prosperity continued to advance together . Both attained their meridian in the age of 8 Macaulay's Essays.
Page 41
... letters and arts were known to Ionia , these vexing questions were debated with no common skill and eloquence , under the tents of the Idumean Emirs ; nor has human reason , in the course of three thousand years , discovered any ...
... letters and arts were known to Ionia , these vexing questions were debated with no common skill and eloquence , under the tents of the Idumean Emirs ; nor has human reason , in the course of three thousand years , discovered any ...
Page 54
... Letters and the fine arts undoubtedly owe much to this not inelegant sloth . But when the great stirring of the mind of Europe began , when doctrine after doctrine was assailed , when nation after nation withdrew from communion with the ...
... Letters and the fine arts undoubtedly owe much to this not inelegant sloth . But when the great stirring of the mind of Europe began , when doctrine after doctrine was assailed , when nation after nation withdrew from communion with the ...
Page 65
... letters , commerce , agriculture , the contrast is most striking . The distinction is not confined to this side of the Atlantic . The colonies planted by England in America have VOL . 11 . D immeasurably outgrown in power those planted ...
... letters , commerce , agriculture , the contrast is most striking . The distinction is not confined to this side of the Atlantic . The colonies planted by England in America have VOL . 11 . D immeasurably outgrown in power those planted ...
Page 67
... letters was found in their ranks . Every year gave birth to works in which the fundamental principles of the Church were attacked with argument , invective , and ridicule . The Church made no defence , except by acts of power . Cen ...
... letters was found in their ranks . Every year gave birth to works in which the fundamental principles of the Church were attacked with argument , invective , and ridicule . The Church made no defence , except by acts of power . Cen ...
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