The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 - English literature |
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... spirit of liberty ; but , in most cases , this tendency is only ultimate , and the dangers with which it menaces a despotic ruler , are too remote and contingent to be balanced against the present advantages which he may derive from ...
... spirit of liberty ; but , in most cases , this tendency is only ultimate , and the dangers with which it menaces a despotic ruler , are too remote and contingent to be balanced against the present advantages which he may derive from ...
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... spirit or fas- cination . Through a long , difficult , and intricate navigation , the historian has to steer by the obscure and intermitting light of a few dimly - twinkling authorities , and with no other compass than loose conjecture ...
... spirit or fas- cination . Through a long , difficult , and intricate navigation , the historian has to steer by the obscure and intermitting light of a few dimly - twinkling authorities , and with no other compass than loose conjecture ...
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... spirit of this general canon extends to the Mosaic chronology , which , it is well known , differs according as it is computed from the Hebrew , the Samaritan , or the Septuagint pentateuch . Now Petavius ad- hering , we believe , to ...
... spirit of this general canon extends to the Mosaic chronology , which , it is well known , differs according as it is computed from the Hebrew , the Samaritan , or the Septuagint pentateuch . Now Petavius ad- hering , we believe , to ...
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... spirit . Living dur- ing the infancy of physical science , and , we may add , during the maturity of metaphysical ignorance , Herodotus very properly avoided every approach to a spirit of dogmatism and incredulity : but an attentive ...
... spirit . Living dur- ing the infancy of physical science , and , we may add , during the maturity of metaphysical ignorance , Herodotus very properly avoided every approach to a spirit of dogmatism and incredulity : but an attentive ...
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... spirit and hardi- hood , which rendered the Spartan people so capacious of empire ; but farther that the ascendency with which the legislator virtually endowed the Spartans , over the other inhabitants of Laconia , in- evitably tended ...
... spirit and hardi- hood , which rendered the Spartan people so capacious of empire ; but farther that the ascendency with which the legislator virtually endowed the Spartans , over the other inhabitants of Laconia , in- evitably tended ...
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