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... expressing the gratification afforded him by a letter received from Hume , to say modestly in his Memoirs : But I never presumed to accept a place in the or inadvertence , rendered this in French by " It M. Guizot , through ...
... expressing the gratification afforded him by a letter received from Hume , to say modestly in his Memoirs : But I never presumed to accept a place in the or inadvertence , rendered this in French by " It M. Guizot , through ...
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... expressions , " although he thought some passages rather too laboured and others too quaint . The causes of this ... expressing common - place thoughts " with a sententious and oracular brevity . ' The two writers whoin he had always ...
... expressions , " although he thought some passages rather too laboured and others too quaint . The causes of this ... expressing common - place thoughts " with a sententious and oracular brevity . ' The two writers whoin he had always ...
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... expression of opinion , there was no obstacle to his accepting in 1779 , the office of a Lord Commissioner of Trade and Plantations , which was obtained for him by the friendship of Mr. Wedderburne , afterwards Lord Loughborough . For ...
... expression of opinion , there was no obstacle to his accepting in 1779 , the office of a Lord Commissioner of Trade and Plantations , which was obtained for him by the friendship of Mr. Wedderburne , afterwards Lord Loughborough . For ...
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... expression , " the western isle , " alluded to the original Celtic name of Ireland , Jarin or Eirin ( M'Pherson's Introduction , p . 56 ; Whitaker's Genuine History of Britons , p . 129 ) , which the Romans , cor- rupted into Hibernia ...
... expression , " the western isle , " alluded to the original Celtic name of Ireland , Jarin or Eirin ( M'Pherson's Introduction , p . 56 ; Whitaker's Genuine History of Britons , p . 129 ) , which the Romans , cor- rupted into Hibernia ...
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... expression employed by Gibbon is somewhat too strong , when he says , " the word miles was almost confined to the infantry . " It is true , that Cicero , Cæsar , most frequently , Livy , Jus- tin , and others , used it in this sense ...
... expression employed by Gibbon is somewhat too strong , when he says , " the word miles was almost confined to the infantry . " It is true , that Cicero , Cæsar , most frequently , Livy , Jus- tin , and others , used it in this sense ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1853 |
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