Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes3-4Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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... human compositions . On every sub- ject which the Professor discusses , he produces three times as many pages as another man ; and one of his pages is as tedious as another man's three . His book is swelled to its vast dimensions by ...
... human compositions . On every sub- ject which the Professor discusses , he produces three times as many pages as another man ; and one of his pages is as tedious as another man's three . His book is swelled to its vast dimensions by ...
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... human race . 2 The history of the Reformation in England is full of strange problems . The most prominent and extraor- dinary phenomenon which it presents to us is the gigantic strength of the government contrasted with the feebleness ...
... human race . 2 The history of the Reformation in England is full of strange problems . The most prominent and extraor- dinary phenomenon which it presents to us is the gigantic strength of the government contrasted with the feebleness ...
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... human race . If a few weaknesses were mingled with his eminent virtues , if a few errors insinuated them- selves among the many valuable truths which he taught , this is assuredly no time for noticing those weaknesses or those errors in ...
... human race . If a few weaknesses were mingled with his eminent virtues , if a few errors insinuated them- selves among the many valuable truths which he taught , this is assuredly no time for noticing those weaknesses or those errors in ...
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... human mind . These were the fruits of the great victory of reason over prejudice . France had rejected the faith of Pascal and Descartes as a nursery fable , that a courtezan might be her idol , and a madman her priest . She had ...
... human mind . These were the fruits of the great victory of reason over prejudice . France had rejected the faith of Pascal and Descartes as a nursery fable , that a courtezan might be her idol , and a madman her priest . She had ...
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... human beings conceived such scorn and aversion for the follies and crimes of the French Revolution that they recanted , in the moment of triumph , those liberal opinions to which they had clung in defiance of persecution . And , if we ...
... human beings conceived such scorn and aversion for the follies and crimes of the French Revolution that they recanted , in the moment of triumph , those liberal opinions to which they had clung in defiance of persecution . And , if we ...
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