Obiter Dicta: Second seriesElliot Stock, 1902 - 233 oldal |
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48. oldal
... historian though he was of Frederick the Great and the French Revolution , revenged himself for the trouble it gave him by loading it with all vile epithets . If it had been a cock or a cook he could not have called it harder names . It ...
... historian though he was of Frederick the Great and the French Revolution , revenged himself for the trouble it gave him by loading it with all vile epithets . If it had been a cock or a cook he could not have called it harder names . It ...
89. oldal
... historian or the moralist seeks an illustra- tion of the coarseness and brutality of their style , he finds it only too easily , not in the works of the dead dunces , but in the pages of their persecutor . Pope had none of the grave pur ...
... historian or the moralist seeks an illustra- tion of the coarseness and brutality of their style , he finds it only too easily , not in the works of the dead dunces , but in the pages of their persecutor . Pope had none of the grave pur ...
155. oldal
... historian , and on the whole has received its deserts . Lord Rockingham , the Duke of Richmond , Lord John Cavendish , Mr. Dowdes- well , and the rest of them , were good men and true , judged by an ordinary standard ; and when ...
... historian , and on the whole has received its deserts . Lord Rockingham , the Duke of Richmond , Lord John Cavendish , Mr. Dowdes- well , and the rest of them , were good men and true , judged by an ordinary standard ; and when ...
179. oldal
... historian , as here explained , is not merely to tell us the story of the past , and thus gratify our curiosity , but , pursuing a practical object , to seek to modify our views of the present and help us in our forecasts of the future ...
... historian , as here explained , is not merely to tell us the story of the past , and thus gratify our curiosity , but , pursuing a practical object , to seek to modify our views of the present and help us in our forecasts of the future ...
183. oldal
... historian is he who tells us any chapter or fragment of that story . All things that on earth do dwell have , no doubt , their history as well as man ; but when a member , however humble , of the human race speaks of history without any ...
... historian is he who tells us any chapter or fragment of that story . All things that on earth do dwell have , no doubt , their history as well as man ; but when a member , however humble , of the human race speaks of history without any ...
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