LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY1841 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 79
עמוד xvii
... proper topics of reflection , Tindal the detail , and Ralph even more than Tindal - Burnet must of course be read - Cobbett will supply the Debates . There are several important tracts in the Appendix to the 5th vol . of his ...
... proper topics of reflection , Tindal the detail , and Ralph even more than Tindal - Burnet must of course be read - Cobbett will supply the Debates . There are several important tracts in the Appendix to the 5th vol . of his ...
עמוד 2
... proper idea of a course of lectures on modern history . But to this plan , the obvious objection was , its extent and its difficulty . The great Lord Bacon did not find himself unworthily employed when he was considering the existing ...
... proper idea of a course of lectures on modern history . But to this plan , the obvious objection was , its extent and its difficulty . The great Lord Bacon did not find himself unworthily employed when he was considering the existing ...
עמוד 4
... proper diligence and ardour , the several duties that belong to us . Turning now from the consideration of the plan of the lectures , to the mode in which I have endeavoured to execute it , as my object was to assist my hearers 4 ...
... proper diligence and ardour , the several duties that belong to us . Turning now from the consideration of the plan of the lectures , to the mode in which I have endeavoured to execute it , as my object was to assist my hearers 4 ...
עמוד 5
... proper shapes and proportions , and leave it in this state upon the memory , to supply the materials of subsequent reflection . But general histories , if they are read , first , and before the particular history is known , are a sort ...
... proper shapes and proportions , and leave it in this state upon the memory , to supply the materials of subsequent reflection . But general histories , if they are read , first , and before the particular history is known , are a sort ...
עמוד 8
... proper materials on which to exercise their diligence , and cannot want to receive from me an enumeration of those references and means of information , which they can in this manner so readily find . But I have ventured to do more than ...
... proper materials on which to exercise their diligence , and cannot want to receive from me an enumeration of those references and means of information , which they can in this manner so readily find . But I have ventured to do more than ...
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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.