Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... society ; and it is then , accordingly , that those creative minds appear which stamp their own impress upon the character of a whole people , and communicate to their litera- ture , in the most distant periods , a certain train of ...
... society ; and it is then , accordingly , that those creative minds appear which stamp their own impress upon the character of a whole people , and communicate to their litera- ture , in the most distant periods , a certain train of ...
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... society . We hear of princes , kings , and the daughters of kings , and our imagination immediately clothes them with the pomp and circumstance of modern royalty . But ere long some little circumstance , let out as it were accidentally ...
... society . We hear of princes , kings , and the daughters of kings , and our imagination immediately clothes them with the pomp and circumstance of modern royalty . But ere long some little circumstance , let out as it were accidentally ...
Sivu 74
... society , or the causes to which its astonishing progress in the Roman state was owing , are to be found . In the introduction to the life of Catiline , Sallust has given , with unequalled power , a sketch of the causes which corrupted ...
... society , or the causes to which its astonishing progress in the Roman state was owing , are to be found . In the introduction to the life of Catiline , Sallust has given , with unequalled power , a sketch of the causes which corrupted ...
Sivu 75
... society . The influ- ence of this great change in the direction of thought at once appeared when knowledge , liberated from the monastery and the university , again took its place among the affairs of men . Machiavel in Italy and Bacon ...
... society . The influ- ence of this great change in the direction of thought at once appeared when knowledge , liberated from the monastery and the university , again took its place among the affairs of men . Machiavel in Italy and Bacon ...
Sivu 76
... society . He gave us the history of philosophy , but not the philosophy of history . The ardent genius and pictorial eye of Gibbon rendered him an incomparable delineator of events ; and his powerful mind made him seize the general and ...
... society . He gave us the history of philosophy , but not the philosophy of history . The ardent genius and pictorial eye of Gibbon rendered him an incomparable delineator of events ; and his powerful mind made him seize the general and ...
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