Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1850 |
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Pagina 7
... England produced . Before their time the division of labour had , in this respect , been very imperfect . Those who had directed public affairs had been , with few exceptions , warriors or priests ; warriors whose rude courage was ...
... England produced . Before their time the division of labour had , in this respect , been very imperfect . Those who had directed public affairs had been , with few exceptions , warriors or priests ; warriors whose rude courage was ...
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... England was radically vicious , a just scorn for the trifles on which the followers of Aristotle had wasted their powers , and no great reverence for Aristotle himself . In his sixteenth year he visited Paris , and resided there for ...
... England was radically vicious , a just scorn for the trifles on which the followers of Aristotle had wasted their powers , and no great reverence for Aristotle himself . In his sixteenth year he visited Paris , and resided there for ...
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... England furnished matter of ridicule to all the nations of Europe . The love of peace which James professed would , even when indulged to an impolitic excess , have been respectable , if it had proceeded from tenderness for his people ...
... England furnished matter of ridicule to all the nations of Europe . The love of peace which James professed would , even when indulged to an impolitic excess , have been respectable , if it had proceeded from tenderness for his people ...
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... England . " " I am sure , " says he in another sermon , " this is scala inferni , the right way to hell , to be covetous , to take bribes , and pervert justice . If a judge should ask me the way to hell , I would show him this way ...
... England . " " I am sure , " says he in another sermon , " this is scala inferni , the right way to hell , to be covetous , to take bribes , and pervert justice . If a judge should ask me the way to hell , I would show him this way ...
Pagina 90
... England , a History of England under the Princes of the House of Tudor , a body of Natural History , a Philosophical Romance . made extensive and valuable additions to his Essays . He published the inestimable Treatise De Augmentis ...
... England , a History of England under the Princes of the House of Tudor , a body of Natural History , a Philosophical Romance . made extensive and valuable additions to his Essays . He published the inestimable Treatise De Augmentis ...
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