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... something should be omitted . unconsciously , and something necessarily passed over , not to encroach too largely on your time and patience . But enough has been said I think to show that history contains 40 INAUGURAL LECTURE .
... something should be omitted . unconsciously , and something necessarily passed over , not to encroach too largely on your time and patience . But enough has been said I think to show that history contains 40 INAUGURAL LECTURE .
Page 44
... passed away like those which we now call ancient , and when our modern history would have become what the history of Greece and Rome is to us ? Such a difference does characterize what , we now call modern history , and must continue to ...
... passed away like those which we now call ancient , and when our modern history would have become what the history of Greece and Rome is to us ? Such a difference does characterize what , we now call modern history , and must continue to ...
Page 48
... of their efforts , which we cannot hope to surpass . But without sur- passing , perhaps without equalling their efforts , we may learn by their experience to avoid their difficulties : Napoleon 48 INAUGURAL LECTURE .
... of their efforts , which we cannot hope to surpass . But without sur- passing , perhaps without equalling their efforts , we may learn by their experience to avoid their difficulties : Napoleon 48 INAUGURAL LECTURE .
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... passed in the reign of Edward I. and subsequent reigns , were uncalled for , that I look on it as a matter of deep regret that the monastic institutions in those ages were not still more stringently supervised and guarded against , so ...
... passed in the reign of Edward I. and subsequent reigns , were uncalled for , that I look on it as a matter of deep regret that the monastic institutions in those ages were not still more stringently supervised and guarded against , so ...
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... passing tempest , and if useful at all , it was use- ful only to destroy . The Gauls could communicate no essential points of human character in which other races might be deficient ; they could neither improve the intellectual state of ...
... passing tempest , and if useful at all , it was use- ful only to destroy . The Gauls could communicate no essential points of human character in which other races might be deficient ; they could neither improve the intellectual state of ...
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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.