Letters on the Study and Use of HistoryA. Millar, 1752 - 481 pagina's |
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Pagina 39
... deaths : where those who had not been punished for their crimes , and those who had not been honored for their virtues , received a just retribution . The fen- tence is pronounced in one case , as it was in the other , too late to ...
... deaths : where those who had not been punished for their crimes , and those who had not been honored for their virtues , received a just retribution . The fen- tence is pronounced in one case , as it was in the other , too late to ...
Pagina 62
... the DECII devoted themselves to death : one , because an oracle had foretold that the army whofe general was killed would be victorious ; the others in com- pliance pliance with a superstition that bore great analogy to a 62 LETTER III .
... the DECII devoted themselves to death : one , because an oracle had foretold that the army whofe general was killed would be victorious ; the others in com- pliance pliance with a superstition that bore great analogy to a 62 LETTER III .
Pagina 64
... death in the service of theirs . They fhew us what a turn of imagination can operate , and how the greatest trifle , nay the greateft abfurdity , dreffed up in the folemn airs of religion , can carry ardor and confidence , or the ...
... death in the service of theirs . They fhew us what a turn of imagination can operate , and how the greatest trifle , nay the greateft abfurdity , dreffed up in the folemn airs of religion , can carry ardor and confidence , or the ...
Pagina 78
... death of CYRUS : and yet how various and repugnant are the relations made by these two historians , of the birth , life , and death of this prince ? If more histories had come down from these ages to ours , the uncertainty and inutility ...
... death of CYRUS : and yet how various and repugnant are the relations made by these two historians , of the birth , life , and death of this prince ? If more histories had come down from these ages to ours , the uncertainty and inutility ...
Pagina 85
... death . of SIMON the juft , by whom this canon . was finished , if he died during the reign . of PTOLOMY SOTER , and the beginning of this famous tranflation under PrOLOMY PHILADELPHIUS . The Hellenift Jews re- ported as many marvellous ...
... death . of SIMON the juft , by whom this canon . was finished , if he died during the reign . of PTOLOMY SOTER , and the beginning of this famous tranflation under PrOLOMY PHILADELPHIUS . The Hellenift Jews re- ported as many marvellous ...
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Pagina 61 - ... disastrous campaigns, we saw every scene of the war full of action. All those wherein he appeared, and many of those wherein he was not then an actor — but abettor, however, of their action — were crowned with the most triumphant success. I take with pleasure this opportunity of doing justice to that great man, whose faults I knew, whose virtues I admired, and whose memory, as the greatest general and as the greatest minister that our country or perhaps any other has produced, I honour.
Pagina 17 - The reason of this judgment, which I quote from one of Seneca's epistles in confirmation of my own opinion, rests, I think, on this; that when examples are pointed out to us...
Pagina 29 - There is scarce any folly or vice more epidemical among the sons of men, than that ridiculous and hurtful vanity by which the people of each country are apt to prefer themselves to those of every other; and to make their own customs, and manners, and opinions, the standards of right and wrong, of true and false.
Pagina 198 - I may say so, of undefiled reason ? Is it not worth our while to approve or condemn, on our own authority, what we receive in the beginning of life on the authority of other men, who were not then better able to judge for us, than we are now to judge for ourselves?
Pagina 143 - Bodin's pupil, resolves to read all, will not have time, no nor capacity neither, to do any thing else. He will not be able to think, without which it is impertinent to read; nor to act, without which it is impertinent to think. He will assemble materials with much pains, and purchase them at much expense.
Pagina 186 - Till this happen, the profession of the law will scarce deserve to be ranked among the learned professions ; and whenever it happens, one of the vantage grounds, to which men must climb, is metaphysical, and the other historical knowledge.
Pagina 12 - There is no need of saying how this passion grows, among civilized nations, in proportion to the means of gratifying it : but let us observe that the same principle of nature directs us as strongly, and more generally as well as more early, to indulge our own curiosity, instead of preparing to gratify that of others.
Pagina 247 - There is no part of the world from whence we may not admire those planets which roll like ours, in different orbits, round the same central sun; from whence we may not discover an object still more stupendous, that army of fixed stars hung up in the immense space of the universe; innumerable suns, whose beams enlighten and cherish the unknown worlds which roll...
Pagina 185 - I might instance in other professions the obligation men lie under of applying themselves to certain parts of History; and I can hardly forbear doing it in that of the Law, — in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and debasement the most sordid and the most pernicious. A lawyer now is nothing more (I speak of ninetynine in a hundred at least...
Pagina 48 - ... of those who govern or are governed in them, will incline to think, that if the scales can be brought back by a war, nearly, though not exactly, to the point they were at before this...