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... existence in its government . And where that government is lodged in the hands of a single individual , then biography and history seem to melt into one another , inasmuch as one and the same person combines in himself his life as an ...
... existence in its government . And where that government is lodged in the hands of a single individual , then biography and history seem to melt into one another , inasmuch as one and the same person combines in himself his life as an ...
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... existence , or the increasing of its power ? We honor the heroism shown in accomplishing these objects ; but power , nay even existence , are not ultimate ends ; the question may be asked of every created being why he should live at all ...
... existence , or the increasing of its power ? We honor the heroism shown in accomplishing these objects ; but power , nay even existence , are not ultimate ends ; the question may be asked of every created being why he should live at all ...
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... existence to any express law or laws , but having originated in various ways at a period of remote antiquity , are already parts of the national system , at the very beginning of our historical view of it , and are re- cognised by all ...
... existence to any express law or laws , but having originated in various ways at a period of remote antiquity , are already parts of the national system , at the very beginning of our historical view of it , and are re- cognised by all ...
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... existence when it was needed to aid the genius of Columbus : why printing was in- vented in time to preserve that portion of Greek literature which still survived in the fifteenth century , but was not known early enough to prevent the ...
... existence when it was needed to aid the genius of Columbus : why printing was in- vented in time to preserve that portion of Greek literature which still survived in the fifteenth century , but was not known early enough to prevent the ...
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... existence , dates its origin from the fall of the western empire ; so far we can trace up the fortunes of nations which are still flourishing ; history so far is the biography of the living ; beyond , it is but the biography of the dead ...
... existence , dates its origin from the fall of the western empire ; so far we can trace up the fortunes of nations which are still flourishing ; history so far is the biography of the living ; beyond , it is but the biography of the dead ...
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Page 161 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 284 - Some have evidently laboured to bring in an English, though not a Roman, Popery ; I mean not only the outside and dress of it, but equally absolute, a blind dependence of the people upon the clergy, and of the clergy upon themselves, and have opposed the Papacy beyond the seas that they might settle one beyond the water [Lambeth].
Page 145 - I confess, that if I were called upon to name what spirit of evil predominantly deserved the name of Antichrist, I should name the spirit of chivalry — the more detestable for the very guise of the " Archangel ruined," which has made it so seductive to the most generous spirits — but to me so hateful, because it is in direct opposition to the impartial justice of the Gospel, and its comprehensive feeling of equal brotherhood, and because it so fostered a...
Page 295 - Memoirs of the Peers of England during the reign of James the First...
Page 46 - I mean, that modern history appears to be not only a step in advance of ancient history, but the last step ; it appears to bear marks of the fulness of time, as if there would be no future history beyond it.
Page 360 - Chivalry is only a name for that general Spirit or state of mind, which disposes men to Heroic and Generous actions; and keeps them conversant with all that is Beautiful and Sublime in the Intellectual and Moral world.
Page 9 - Never may from our souls one truth depart — That an accursed thing it is to gaze On prosperous tyrants with a dazzled eye...
Page 61 - But not the wildest extravagance of atheistic wickedness in modern times can go farther than the sophists of Greece went before them ; whatever audacity can dare and subtilty contrive to make the words
Page 194 - ... hills rises to its summit, and hides from view all the country behind it. Those towers are the forts of the famous lines, which, curiously resembling in shape the later Syracusan walls enclosing...
Page 71 - When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 'you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.