The National Quarterly Review, Volume 2, Issue 3Pudney & Russell, 1860 |
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Page 31
... nations - who has overthrown such a mul- titude of prejudices , and conjured up in their stead thoughts and . opinions that are almost daily producing fruits which border on the miraculous . We should rather say , as Bolingbroke did of ...
... nations - who has overthrown such a mul- titude of prejudices , and conjured up in their stead thoughts and . opinions that are almost daily producing fruits which border on the miraculous . We should rather say , as Bolingbroke did of ...
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... nation has its golden age - that in which it produces the best intellectual fruit of which its genius is capable . Those who disagree with each other , on almost all other subjects , yield a ready assent to this . But there are few to ...
... nation has its golden age - that in which it produces the best intellectual fruit of which its genius is capable . Those who disagree with each other , on almost all other subjects , yield a ready assent to this . But there are few to ...
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... nation had passed away . In writing to his old friend Don Francisco de Almeyda , only one week before his death , he says : " The world shall witness how dearly I have loved my country . I have returned not merely to die in her bosom ...
... nation had passed away . In writing to his old friend Don Francisco de Almeyda , only one week before his death , he says : " The world shall witness how dearly I have loved my country . I have returned not merely to die in her bosom ...
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... nations . " This is high praise from one who , like Voltaire , scoffed at everything that contained any tinge of ... nation and of nature . He must be skilled to touch each chord of human passion ; his strain must not be monotonous ...
... nations . " This is high praise from one who , like Voltaire , scoffed at everything that contained any tinge of ... nation and of nature . He must be skilled to touch each chord of human passion ; his strain must not be monotonous ...
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... nation . Unlike the history of all other countries , which emerge from darkness and dim twilight into day , that of America at once opens into full light in a period of civilization . The arts of printing and of navi- gation , coeval ...
... nation . Unlike the history of all other countries , which emerge from darkness and dim twilight into day , that of America at once opens into full light in a period of civilization . The arts of printing and of navi- gation , coeval ...
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