The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen76A. Constable, 1843 |
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... human conduct can be made ap- parent .'- ( ix . 104. ) A similar and still more painful example of bad taste is to be found in the very next page . All the springs , ' says he , which the world can furnish to sustain the fortunes of an ...
... human conduct can be made ap- parent .'- ( ix . 104. ) A similar and still more painful example of bad taste is to be found in the very next page . All the springs , ' says he , which the world can furnish to sustain the fortunes of an ...
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... human affairs , that when we wish to retrace the revolutions of a people , and to investigate the causes of their grandeur or misfor- tune , we are insensibly conducted step by step to their cradle .'- ( ii . 536. ) The historian has ...
... human affairs , that when we wish to retrace the revolutions of a people , and to investigate the causes of their grandeur or misfor- tune , we are insensibly conducted step by step to their cradle .'- ( ii . 536. ) The historian has ...
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... human wisdom , an universal frenzy seizes ' mankind ; reason , experience , prudence , are alike blinded , and ' the very persons who are to perish in the storm are the first to raise its fury .'- ( i . 149. ) This is a good specimen of ...
... human wisdom , an universal frenzy seizes ' mankind ; reason , experience , prudence , are alike blinded , and ' the very persons who are to perish in the storm are the first to raise its fury .'- ( i . 149. ) This is a good specimen of ...
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... human conduct . Why then have recourse to causes ' inscrutable to human wisdom ? Why call down a divinity , when the knot can be disentangled by mortal skill ? Assume , if you will , that nations , like elephants , are subject to ...
... human conduct . Why then have recourse to causes ' inscrutable to human wisdom ? Why call down a divinity , when the knot can be disentangled by mortal skill ? Assume , if you will , that nations , like elephants , are subject to ...
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... human nature would have been confounded , if we had found the French Jacobins recommending the constitution of 1789 in the calm and rational language in which Hampden might have spoken for the abolition of the Star - Chamber , or Lord ...
... human nature would have been confounded , if we had found the French Jacobins recommending the constitution of 1789 in the calm and rational language in which Hampden might have spoken for the abolition of the Star - Chamber , or Lord ...
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