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... defects of a hitherto imperfect educa- tion . Instead of using the occasion thus presented of recovering some of the precious time lost , of laying a sound foundation of scholarship and learning on which a superstructure at the ...
... defects of a hitherto imperfect educa- tion . Instead of using the occasion thus presented of recovering some of the precious time lost , of laying a sound foundation of scholarship and learning on which a superstructure at the ...
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... defects of Oxford in a stern section of the Wealth of Nations , written twenty years after he had left the place . Even youths like Gray and West , fresh from Eton , express themselves with contempt for their respective uni- versities ...
... defects of Oxford in a stern section of the Wealth of Nations , written twenty years after he had left the place . Even youths like Gray and West , fresh from Eton , express themselves with contempt for their respective uni- versities ...
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... defect he wisely resolved to bestow some time every morning on the perusal of the Greek Grammar of Port Royal . Thus we see that at an age when many men are beginning to forget their Greek , Gibbon was beginning to learn it . Was this ...
... defect he wisely resolved to bestow some time every morning on the perusal of the Greek Grammar of Port Royal . Thus we see that at an age when many men are beginning to forget their Greek , Gibbon was beginning to learn it . Was this ...
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... defect , but it is a character- istic . The result has certainly been that he is one of the best - known of English prose writers on the Conti- nent , and one whom foreigners most readily comprehend . This peculiarity , of which he ...
... defect , but it is a character- istic . The result has certainly been that he is one of the best - known of English prose writers on the Conti- nent , and one whom foreigners most readily comprehend . This peculiarity , of which he ...
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... defects without repugnance . I shall say nothing of the most intimate acquaintance with his country and language , so absolutely necessary to every senator ; since they may be acquired , to allege my deficiency in them would seem only ...
... defects without repugnance . I shall say nothing of the most intimate acquaintance with his country and language , so absolutely necessary to every senator ; since they may be acquired , to allege my deficiency in them would seem only ...
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Side 12 - The Desert of the Exodus. Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings, undertaken in connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. By EH PALMER, MA, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic and Fellow of St.
Side 139 - I beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr. Burke's creed on the revolution of France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments.
Side 4 - MOHAMMED AND MOHAMMEDANISM: Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March, 1874. By R.
Side 10 - HOMES WITHOUT HANDS; a Description of the Habitations of Animals, classed according to their Principle of Construction.
Side 12 - Without a single lecture, either public or private, either Christian or protestant, without any academical subscription, without any episcopal confirmation, I was left by the dim light of my catechism to grope my way to the chapel and communiontable, where I was admitted, without a question, how far, or by what means, I might be qualified to receive the sacrament.
Side 136 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Side 1 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty Years
Side 27 - The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman.
Side 21 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Side 104 - He remains the one historian of the eighteenth century whom modern research has neither set aside nor threatened to set aside.