The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... passions , to prescribe the rules of distributive justice , and to inculcate the duties of active humanity , was the proper and essential province of the instructor , as well as of the legislator . At first , indeed , these two ...
... passions , to prescribe the rules of distributive justice , and to inculcate the duties of active humanity , was the proper and essential province of the instructor , as well as of the legislator . At first , indeed , these two ...
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... passions , we find that many of the most distinguished historians of this class have chosen for their subjects , either transactions of which they were themselves witnesses , or that were very near their own times . Thucydides and ...
... passions , we find that many of the most distinguished historians of this class have chosen for their subjects , either transactions of which they were themselves witnesses , or that were very near their own times . Thucydides and ...
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... passions of others . To explain the immediate motives and springs of actions , was necessary even for connecting their narrative ; but to proceed farther and trace the remote causes , and to perceive how much public events were affected ...
... passions of others . To explain the immediate motives and springs of actions , was necessary even for connecting their narrative ; but to proceed farther and trace the remote causes , and to perceive how much public events were affected ...
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... passions and prejudices . And this , sir , is no inconsiderable ad- vance in the science of self - knowledge . In the perusal of history , or of the more limited pictures which biography presents to us , there is no reader who does not ...
... passions and prejudices . And this , sir , is no inconsiderable ad- vance in the science of self - knowledge . In the perusal of history , or of the more limited pictures which biography presents to us , there is no reader who does not ...
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... passion could , at times , entirely obliterate . It was my character , sir , as that of many , to see the path of duty and propriety , but to have the weakness to be for ever deviating from it . Educated in a respectable sphere of life ...
... passion could , at times , entirely obliterate . It was my character , sir , as that of many , to see the path of duty and propriety , but to have the weakness to be for ever deviating from it . Educated in a respectable sphere of life ...
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