The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 25Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1851 - American literature |
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... question the sincerity of his love . It is certain , however , that his learning was too much the learning of colleges ; that for a thinker so great and original he showed not much discrimination . This even was characteristic of his ...
... question the sincerity of his love . It is certain , however , that his learning was too much the learning of colleges ; that for a thinker so great and original he showed not much discrimination . This even was characteristic of his ...
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... question : these two celebrat- ed men only put into their own language the ideas of common people . But it was not so with Burke . He could not but be at all times a great philosopher , thinking deeply on the nature of man , and the ...
... question : these two celebrat- ed men only put into their own language the ideas of common people . But it was not so with Burke . He could not but be at all times a great philosopher , thinking deeply on the nature of man , and the ...
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... question . And yet the deistical writers that is seen in the publica- Gordon Riots occurred little more than tions of his old age ; and we now affirm , seventy years ago , and at the mere whisper that in his first great political work ...
... question . And yet the deistical writers that is seen in the publica- Gordon Riots occurred little more than tions of his old age ; and we now affirm , seventy years ago , and at the mere whisper that in his first great political work ...
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... question that most perplexed his distracted cabinet . For years , the Eastern empire was the principal subject of the debates in the House of Commons , un- til even it was for a while forgotten as another menacing meteor appeared in a ...
... question that most perplexed his distracted cabinet . For years , the Eastern empire was the principal subject of the debates in the House of Commons , un- til even it was for a while forgotten as another menacing meteor appeared in a ...
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... question that he was far superior to either of those celebrated men . But perhaps in no respect did he so much resemble Bacon as in the comprehen- sive faculty by which he was able to look on every side of a great question , and the ...
... question that he was far superior to either of those celebrated men . But perhaps in no respect did he so much resemble Bacon as in the comprehen- sive faculty by which he was able to look on every side of a great question , and the ...
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