The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 44 |
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History is read with pleasure , and with mo- ral effect , only so far as it engages our feelings in the merit or demerit , in the fame or fortune , of historical personages . it did not excite such feelings , we should study it with the ...
History is read with pleasure , and with mo- ral effect , only so far as it engages our feelings in the merit or demerit , in the fame or fortune , of historical personages . it did not excite such feelings , we should study it with the ...
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that it should be so - For the condition of mankind would not , upon the whole , be bettered , by our feeling less strongly about each other's concerns . Among these problems , a few of the most remarkable are- Who wrote the Book which ...
that it should be so - For the condition of mankind would not , upon the whole , be bettered , by our feeling less strongly about each other's concerns . Among these problems , a few of the most remarkable are- Who wrote the Book which ...
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... the pre- cision , clearness , and elegant correctness of diction , which run through all the tracts of the writer , neither correspond to the edu- cation of women in that age , nor to their susceptible feelings at any time .
... the pre- cision , clearness , and elegant correctness of diction , which run through all the tracts of the writer , neither correspond to the edu- cation of women in that age , nor to their susceptible feelings at any time .
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Did Clarendon relinquish , without a struggle , his belief in a book , which had doubtless touched his feelings when he read it as the work of his Royal Master ? Even curiosity might have led Charles II . , when receiving the blessing ...
Did Clarendon relinquish , without a struggle , his belief in a book , which had doubtless touched his feelings when he read it as the work of his Royal Master ? Even curiosity might have led Charles II . , when receiving the blessing ...
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... the generous feelings of men . It cannot be doubted , and ought not to be forgotten , that a false claim to the Icon is a crime of a far deeper dye than the publication of it under the false appearance of a work of the King .
... the generous feelings of men . It cannot be doubted , and ought not to be forgotten , that a false claim to the Icon is a crime of a far deeper dye than the publication of it under the false appearance of a work of the King .
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