History as a Condition of Social Progress. A Lecture ...1853 |
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... instances , and thousands of others less illustrious , are nothing to our purpose , for they are individual and exceptional , and are not capable of any appropriate classification . Again , I do not mean by the influence of history its ...
... instances , and thousands of others less illustrious , are nothing to our purpose , for they are individual and exceptional , and are not capable of any appropriate classification . Again , I do not mean by the influence of history its ...
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... instance , his disappointment at the grove of Daphne in these words : " I hastened from the temple of Jupiter to the sacred grove , in the hope that I should there be gratified with the greatest display of your riches and your love of ...
... instance , his disappointment at the grove of Daphne in these words : " I hastened from the temple of Jupiter to the sacred grove , in the hope that I should there be gratified with the greatest display of your riches and your love of ...
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... instances , and thousands of others less illustrious , are nothing to our purpose , for they are individual and exceptional , and are not capable of any appropriate classification . Again , I do not mean by the influence of history its ...
... instances , and thousands of others less illustrious , are nothing to our purpose , for they are individual and exceptional , and are not capable of any appropriate classification . Again , I do not mean by the influence of history its ...
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... instance , his disappointment at the grove of Daphne in these words : " I hastened from the temple of Jupiter to the sacred grove , in the hope that I should there be gratified with the greatest display of your riches and your love of ...
... instance , his disappointment at the grove of Daphne in these words : " I hastened from the temple of Jupiter to the sacred grove , in the hope that I should there be gratified with the greatest display of your riches and your love of ...
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... instances , the ancient formula were still influential ; sedition asserted its derivation from the Gracchi , and the assassin who struck Rome's most able statesman was compared in the popular imagi- nation to the Brutus who stabbed ...
... instances , the ancient formula were still influential ; sedition asserted its derivation from the Gracchi , and the assassin who struck Rome's most able statesman was compared in the popular imagi- nation to the Brutus who stabbed ...
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advance ancient anti-Christian prejudices Arnold of Brescia artist Athens attempt to invest attempts at revival augury Cæsar catastrophes century Christian classic antiquity CLOWES AND SONS common conceived conclusion CONDITION OF SOCIAL Constantius contribution conviction or hope definite conviction distin efforts empire endeavour England English English Commonwealth errors examples exponent Fraser's Magazine French Girondists goose Greek grove guish Herder heroes honour hope of success human idea illus illustrate imagination imitate immortal imperfectly impulse individual INFLUENCE OF HISTORY instances Isthmian games knowledge of history language Libanius Mardonius Maximus Mayflower mention mind modern moral narrative of Gibbon notion old creed ourselves paramount past Petrarch PILGRIM FATHERS Plato Plutarch political polytheism Pontiff present principle progress of society Puritans race reasonable hope remarkable remember Republicans restore resuscitate revolutions Rienzi Roman republic Rome scholar's sense social philosophy social progress spirit STAMFORD STREET Strauss tendency Theocracy throne tions trated triumph Vergniaud
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Página 8 - Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Página 11 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Página 8 - first in the making of a commonwealth, then in the governing of -it, and last of all in the leading of its armies, which, though there be great divines, great lawyers, great men in all ranks of life, seems to be peculiar only to the genius of a gentleman.
Página 20 - Provincetown harbour; and there she lies, with all her treasures, not of silver and gold, (for of these she has none,) but of courage, of patience, of zeal, of high spiritual daring. So often as I dwell in imagination on this scene...
Página 21 - I see the mountains of New England rising from their rocky thrones. They rush forward into the ocean, settling down as they advance ; and there they range themselves, a mighty bulwark around the heaven-directed vessel. Yes, the everlasting God himself stretches out the arm of his mercy and his power in substantial manifestation, and gathers the meek company of his worshippers as in the hollow of his hand.
Página 20 - I survey the terrible front presented by our coast to the navigator, who, unacquainted with its channels and roadsteads, should approach it in the stormy season, I dare not call it a mere piece of good fortune, that the general north and south wall of the shore of New England should be broken by this extraordinary projection of the cape running out into the ocean a hundred miles, as if on purpose to receive and encircle the precious vessel.
Página 8 - Of bees' industrious murmur, oft invites To studious musing; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view The schools of ancient sages; his, who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next: There...
Página 20 - I now see her, freighted with the destinies of a continent, barely escaped from the perils of the deep, approaching the shore precisely where the broad sweep of this most remarkable headland presents almost the only point at which for hundreds of miles she could with any ease have made a...