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Page 131
This meaning results , even to the Biblereaders of the present day ; but what more terrible sentiment must have been felt by those disputants who , throughout the poem , have been darkening counsel by words without knowledge , it might ...
This meaning results , even to the Biblereaders of the present day ; but what more terrible sentiment must have been felt by those disputants who , throughout the poem , have been darkening counsel by words without knowledge , it might ...
Page 264
... character : but we are much deceived if the exertions of the teachers and of the taught are not more useful and efficient at the present day , than they were during the earlier periods of the history of these seats of learning .
... character : but we are much deceived if the exertions of the teachers and of the taught are not more useful and efficient at the present day , than they were during the earlier periods of the history of these seats of learning .
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The style of the present historian is perhaps too much modelled on that of Gibbon , but by no means fails always in its attempts to be pithy and powerful . It is to be regretted , however , that an inaccurate knowlege of the simple art ...
The style of the present historian is perhaps too much modelled on that of Gibbon , but by no means fails always in its attempts to be pithy and powerful . It is to be regretted , however , that an inaccurate knowlege of the simple art ...
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Contents
Netherlands Account | 35 |
Griffiths Translation of Cuviers | 92 |
Historical Life of Joanna Queen of Landseers Sabæan Researches | 128 |
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