Introductory Lectures on Modern History, Delivered in Lent Term, MDCCCXLII.: With the Inaugural Lecture Delivered in December, MDCCCXLI.B. Fellowes, 1847 - 315 sider |
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... principle on which the Lectures themselves were written . The introduction of this work as a text - book I regard as im- portant , because , at least so far as my information entitles me to speak , there is no book better calculated to ...
... principle on which the Lectures themselves were written . The introduction of this work as a text - book I regard as im- portant , because , at least so far as my information entitles me to speak , there is no book better calculated to ...
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... principles or opinions to various political or social conditions ; but be the thoughts and words what they may , there is assurance that they come from a man distin- guished for that straightforwardness of purpose and of speech which ...
... principles or opinions to various political or social conditions ; but be the thoughts and words what they may , there is assurance that they come from a man distin- guished for that straightforwardness of purpose and of speech which ...
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... principle . — The questions contained in them are economical and military.- Economical questions . - Difficulty of supporting a war.— Temptation to raise money by loans . - Evils of the borrow- ing system . - Examples of financial ...
... principle . — The questions contained in them are economical and military.- Economical questions . - Difficulty of supporting a war.— Temptation to raise money by loans . - Evils of the borrow- ing system . - Examples of financial ...
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... Principles intermixed with one another . -Example of Hume . — What is the party of the movement ? -Not always a popular party . - Parties changed by time.— Example of the Guelfs and Ghibelins . — Dread of extinct evils ; or of such as ...
... Principles intermixed with one another . -Example of Hume . — What is the party of the movement ? -Not always a popular party . - Parties changed by time.— Example of the Guelfs and Ghibelins . — Dread of extinct evils ; or of such as ...
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... principles are clearly good . - Yet can his- tory profit us ? -Or are we bound by an unchangeable fate ? -Can we undo the effect of the past ? -Supposed case in the French Revolution . - The effects of the past partly re- versible ...
... principles are clearly good . - Yet can his- tory profit us ? -Or are we bound by an unchangeable fate ? -Can we undo the effect of the past ? -Supposed case in the French Revolution . - The effects of the past partly re- versible ...
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Side 161 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Side 71 - When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 'you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Side 146 - I confess, that if I were called upon to name what spirit of evil predominantly deserved the name of Antichrist, I should name the spirit of chivalry — the more detestable for the very guise of the " Archangel ruined," which has made it so seductive to the most generous spirits — but to me so hateful, because it is in direct opposition to the impartial justice of the Gospel, and its comprehensive feeling of equal brotherhood, and because it so fostered a sense of honour rather than a sense of...
Side 115 - Keep your view of men and things extensive, and depend upon it that a mixed knowledge is not a superficial one ; — as far as it goes, the views that it gives are true, — but he who reads deeply in one class of writers only, gets views which are almost sure to be perverted, and which are not only narrow but false.
Side 255 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
Side 312 - I, AB, do declare, that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king : and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissioned by him...
Side 59 - Roman or any other mixture ; the birth-place of the most moral races of men that the world has yet seen — of the soundest laws — the least violent passions, and the fairest domestic and civil virtues.
Side 151 - Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London by William John Hamilton, Esq., President of the Society : — " The Geological Map of India by Mr.
Side 355 - This just and necessary war, as we have been accustomed to hear it styled from the beginning of the contest in the year 1793, had, some time before the Treaty of Amiens, viz. after the subjugation of Switzerland, and not till then, begun to be regarded by the body of the people, as indeed both just and necessary...
Side 145 - Caesar, and the dead pause which followed, as if the acts had just been committed in his very presence. No expression of his reverence for a high standard of Christian excellence could have been more striking than the almost involuntary expressions of admiration which broke from him whenever mention was made of St. Louis of France.