LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY1841 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 46
עמוד 7
... alluding to a work of such extraordinary merit . A youth who had listened to him , with all the laudable ardour of his particular time of life , had no sooner retired from his company than he instantly sent for Thuanus , resolving to ...
... alluding to a work of such extraordinary merit . A youth who had listened to him , with all the laudable ardour of his particular time of life , had no sooner retired from his company than he instantly sent for Thuanus , resolving to ...
עמוד 13
... alluded to . Believe me , he will not blame your lecturer for having offered too much to your curiosity . He will rather suppose him not sufficiently aware of all the proper objects of historical inquiry . Men of letters and real ...
... alluded to . Believe me , he will not blame your lecturer for having offered too much to your curiosity . He will rather suppose him not sufficiently aware of all the proper objects of historical inquiry . Men of letters and real ...
עמוד 16
... alluded to it before , I must again recall it to your attention . It is this , that my hearers are not to resort to me to receive historical knowledge , but to receive hints that may be of use to them while they are endeavouring to ...
... alluded to it before , I must again recall it to your attention . It is this , that my hearers are not to resort to me to receive historical knowledge , but to receive hints that may be of use to them while they are endeavouring to ...
עמוד 19
... there is one objection to history , too imposing and too weighty not to be alluded to and examined . It is no other than this ; that history , after all , is not truth ; that it neither is nor ever can be ; that INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 19.
... there is one objection to history , too imposing and too weighty not to be alluded to and examined . It is no other than this ; that history , after all , is not truth ; that it neither is nor ever can be ; that INTRODUCTORY LECTURE . 19.
עמוד 31
... alluded to , the three first chapters of Mr. Gibbon's History , and the ninth , must be most diligently studied . These chapters may serve to point out more particularly the classical authors that should be consulted - they are very ...
... alluded to , the three first chapters of Mr. Gibbon's History , and the ninth , must be most diligently studied . These chapters may serve to point out more particularly the classical authors that should be consulted - they are very ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abbé de Mably afterwards allude appear arbitrary army assemblies authority Barbarians barons cause century chapters character Charles church civil and religious commons conceive conduct considered constitution constitution of France contest Cromwell crown doctrines Edward the Confessor Elector Palatine endeavour England Europe exhibited favourable feudal system France French history Gibbon hearers Henry Henry IV Henry VIII historian history of France honour House of Austria human mind Hume important inquiry instance interests intolerance king labour laws lectures liberty long parliament Lord Louis XI mankind manner mentioned merit Millar monarch nation nature never observe occasion opinions original parliament particular party peace peace of Passau peace of Westphalia period perusal philosophic political prerogative Presbyterians princes principles Protestant reader reason Reformation reign religion remarkable respect Roman Catholic says seems society sovereign states-general student sufficient supposed tion truth virtue whole writers
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 10 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
עמוד 193 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
עמוד 80 - Their poverty extorted from their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil.
עמוד 28 - Alii immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines.
עמוד iii - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
עמוד 408 - He would confirm his spirit in the truth and lead him by a right enlightened conscience ; and finding no check, but a confirmation in his conscience that it was his duty to act as he did, he upon serious debate, both privately and in his addresses to God, and in conferences with conscientious, upright, unbiassed persons, proceeded to sign the sentence against the king.
עמוד 358 - Lastly, for a complement of all these blessings, they were enjoyed by, and under the protection of, a king, of the most harmless disposition, and the most exemplary piety, the greatest example of sobriety, chastity, and mercy, that any prince...
עמוד 358 - Star-Chamber censuring the breach and disobedience to those proclamations by very great fines and imprisonment ; so that any disrespect to any acts of state, or to the persons of statesmen, was in no time more penal, and those foundations of right by which men valued their security, to the apprehension and understanding of wise men, never more in danger to be destroyed.
עמוד 408 - ... although he was very much confirmed in his judgment concerning the cause, yet being here called to an extraordinary action, whereof many were of several minds, he addressed himself to God by prayer, desiring the Lord, that, if through any human frailty, he were led into any error or false opinion in those great transactions, he would open his eyes, and not suffer him to proceed, but that he would confirm his...
עמוד 112 - And let this little hanging ball alone ; For give you but a foot of conscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toss the globe.