The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... circumstance of life . Of the first , our desire to be remarked for talents to which we have no proper claim , the reason may , I think , be drawn from the period of life at which it commonly takes its rise . Our real endowments were ...
... circumstance of life . Of the first , our desire to be remarked for talents to which we have no proper claim , the reason may , I think , be drawn from the period of life at which it commonly takes its rise . Our real endowments were ...
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... circumstances in the situation of any people , which can alone yield solid instruction . Historians may therefore be divided into two kinds , according to the methods they have followed , and the ends they have chiefly had in view in ...
... circumstances in the situation of any people , which can alone yield solid instruction . Historians may therefore be divided into two kinds , according to the methods they have followed , and the ends they have chiefly had in view in ...
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... circumstances , has the greatest effect in generalizing and enlarging the views of an historian . It is with nations as with individuals ; no family knowledge , no domestic study , can ever afford that large and ex- tended information ...
... circumstances , has the greatest effect in generalizing and enlarging the views of an historian . It is with nations as with individuals ; no family knowledge , no domestic study , can ever afford that large and ex- tended information ...
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... circumstances of the present age have bestowed on history its most signal improvement , and have given it a form before unknown . The many and various revolutions which an experience of more than three thousand years has exhibited to ...
... circumstances of the present age have bestowed on history its most signal improvement , and have given it a form before unknown . The many and various revolutions which an experience of more than three thousand years has exhibited to ...
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... . I have often thought , that should a man be really in earnest in the desire of attaining a knowledge of his own character , there are times and circumstances which lay it open before him : there are situations 7 . 35 THE LOUNGER .
... . I have often thought , that should a man be really in earnest in the desire of attaining a knowledge of his own character , there are times and circumstances which lay it open before him : there are situations 7 . 35 THE LOUNGER .
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