Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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Sivu 23
... industry to the weak and foresight to the thoughtless . " No sooner have the trees put forth their leaves , than a thousand little workmen commence their labours . Some bring long pieces of straw into the hole of an old wall , others ...
... industry to the weak and foresight to the thoughtless . " No sooner have the trees put forth their leaves , than a thousand little workmen commence their labours . Some bring long pieces of straw into the hole of an old wall , others ...
Sivu 57
... industry of the bees ; we even feel we have a friend in the little underground nest of the field- mouse . The opening lines of the Eclogues , which every schoolboy knows by heart , give an earnest of the exquisite taste which pervades ...
... industry of the bees ; we even feel we have a friend in the little underground nest of the field- mouse . The opening lines of the Eclogues , which every schoolboy knows by heart , give an earnest of the exquisite taste which pervades ...
Sivu 81
... industry had worked out , Robertson succeeded in producing the most luminous , and at the same time just , view of the progress of nations that had yet been presented among mankind . The philosophy of history here appeared in its full ...
... industry had worked out , Robertson succeeded in producing the most luminous , and at the same time just , view of the progress of nations that had yet been presented among mankind . The philosophy of history here appeared in its full ...
Sivu 85
... industry with philosophic generalisation , Sismondi is far from being a perfect historian . He did well to abridge his great works ; for he will find few readers who will have perseverance enough to go through them . An abridgment was ...
... industry with philosophic generalisation , Sismondi is far from being a perfect historian . He did well to abridge his great works ; for he will find few readers who will have perseverance enough to go through them . An abridgment was ...
Sivu 91
... ancient to modern times is apparent . From a few detached hints and insulated facts , left by the ancient annalists , apparently ignorant of their value and careless of their preservation , modern industry , guided by the light GUIZOT . 91.
... ancient to modern times is apparent . From a few detached hints and insulated facts , left by the ancient annalists , apparently ignorant of their value and careless of their preservation , modern industry , guided by the light GUIZOT . 91.
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