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" Nor can it be but a touch of arrogant ignorance to hold this or that nation barbarous, these or those times gross, considering how this manifold creature man, wheresoever he stand in the world, hath always some disposition of worth, entertains the order... "
Cosmopolis: An International Monthly Review ... - Page 338
1897
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William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Volume 2

Charles Kegan Paul - Authors, English - 1876 - 358 pages
...of worth, entertains and affects that order of society which is best for his use, and is eminent for some one thing or other that fits his humour and the times.' This is the truest and most sublime toleration. There is a period, indeed, when each institution is...
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ...

William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 644 pages
...of worth, entertains and effects that order of society which is best for hia use, and is eminent for some one thing or other that fits his humour and the times.' This is the truest and most sublime toleration. There is a period, indeed, when each institution is...
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Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One ...

William Baptiste Scoones - English letters - 1880 - 608 pages
...of worth, entertains and effects that order of society which is best for his use, and is eminent for some one thing or other that fits .his humour and the times.' This is the truest and most sublime toleration. There is a period, indeed, when each institution is...
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Words and Days: A Table-book of Prose and Verse

Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...of worth, entertains and affects that order of society which is best for his use, and is eminent for some one thing or other that fits his humour and the times. DANIEL. SOME foreign writers, some our own despise ; The ancients only or the modern prize. Thus wit,...
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Literary Pamphlets Chiefly Relating to Poetry from Sidney to Byron ...

Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1897 - 288 pages
...alwayes some disposition of woorth, entertaines the order of societie, affects that which is most in vse, and is eminent in some one thing or other, that fits his humour and the times. The Grecians held all other nations barbarous but themselves, yet Pyrrhus when he saw the well A DEFENCE...
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Literary Pamphlets Chiefly Relating to Poetry from Sidney to Byron ...

Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1897 - 286 pages
...alwayes some disposition of woorth, entertaines the order of societie, affects that which is most in vse, and is eminent in some one thing or other, that fits his humour and the times. The Grecians held all other nations barbarous but themselves, yet Pyrrhus when he saw the well 1 Horace...
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Periods of European Literature, Volume 1

George Saintsbury - Literature - 1904 - 384 pages
...servire oportet. . . . It is not books but only that great book of the world and the all-overspreading grace of heaven that makes men truly judicial. Nor...thing or other, that fits his humour and the times. . . . The Goths, Vandals, and Longobards, whose coming down like an inundation overwhelmed, as they...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 176

Scotland - 1904 - 1124 pages
...those times gross, considering how this manifold creature man, wheresoe'er he stand in the world, has always some disposition of worth, entertains the order...thing or other that fits his humour and the times." In other words, there never was a Dark Age, and Professor Ker is its most erudite and eloquent historian....
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Elizabethan Critical Essays, Volume 2

George Gregory Smith - Criticism - 1904 - 524 pages
...some disposition of worth, 20 intertaines the order of societie, affects that which is most in vse, and is eminent in some one thing or other that fits his humour and the times. The Grecians held all other nations barbarous but themselues; yet Pirrhus when he saw the well ordered...
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English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries ...

Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 pages
...world and the all-overspreading grace of heaven that makes men truly judicial. Nor can it be but a touch of arrogant ignorance to hold this or that nation...thing or other that fits his humour and the times. The Grecians held all other nations barbarous but themselves ; yet Pyrrhus, when he saw the well-ordered...
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