The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - Lancashire (England) - 732 pages |
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... writing the annals of a nation without recording the acts , words , and characters of many men in that nation , is obvious . But a philosophical historian always has his eye fixed on an Event , or a Principle ; individual interests and ...
... writing the annals of a nation without recording the acts , words , and characters of many men in that nation , is obvious . But a philosophical historian always has his eye fixed on an Event , or a Principle ; individual interests and ...
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... writer for the hard passionless spirit of enquiry , so essentially neces- sary to arrive at those grand principles which convert facts into truths ; principles in the light whereof a statesman ought to read the past , and without which ...
... writer for the hard passionless spirit of enquiry , so essentially neces- sary to arrive at those grand principles which convert facts into truths ; principles in the light whereof a statesman ought to read the past , and without which ...
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... writing their own condemnation ? Because the heart of man gives honour to bravery , which is nature's gift , but has no respect for the wisdom which grows of experience in evil ways . Now the study of history in books can give only the ...
... writing their own condemnation ? Because the heart of man gives honour to bravery , which is nature's gift , but has no respect for the wisdom which grows of experience in evil ways . Now the study of history in books can give only the ...
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... writing , he was again received at Trinity College , and seems to have steadily applied himself to the pursuit of learning till 1640 , when the loss of his revered parent again interrupted his academical course . The circum- stances of ...
... writing , he was again received at Trinity College , and seems to have steadily applied himself to the pursuit of learning till 1640 , when the loss of his revered parent again interrupted his academical course . The circum- stances of ...
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... writing was not quite so indispensable in the seventeenth century as at present , our account of Marvell's travels is necessarily scanty , the few incidental notices that may occur in his miscellaneous works not being sufficient to ...
... writing was not quite so indispensable in the seventeenth century as at present , our account of Marvell's travels is necessarily scanty , the few incidental notices that may occur in his miscellaneous works not being sufficient to ...
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