Introductory Lectures on Modern History, Delivered in Lent Term, MDCCCXLII.: With the Inaugural Lecture Delivered in December, MDCCCXLI. |
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... field 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 .
... field 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 .
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... 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 ...
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... 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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