The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, Volume 2Longmans, Green and Company, 1872 - Great Britain The volumes include essays on aspects of English history and contain Buckle's commonplace books. |
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... opinion that the union of first cousins was prohibited in Scripture , and the emperor Theodosius is supposed to have acted under his advice when he promulgated an atrocious law by which persons intermarrying under such circumstances ...
... opinion that the union of first cousins was prohibited in Scripture , and the emperor Theodosius is supposed to have acted under his advice when he promulgated an atrocious law by which persons intermarrying under such circumstances ...
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... opinion of schoolmasters , in Bishop of Lincoln's Illustrations from the Writings of Tertullian , p . 361. See Camp- bell's Lectures on Eccles . History , ii , 268. Wiseman's Lectures on Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion ...
... opinion of schoolmasters , in Bishop of Lincoln's Illustrations from the Writings of Tertullian , p . 361. See Camp- bell's Lectures on Eccles . History , ii , 268. Wiseman's Lectures on Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion ...
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... opinion that the swellings of the neck which are found among the inhabitants of the Alps are occa- sioned by the use of snow - water , and observes , with more perti- nency than is very usual with him , that the very same disease is ...
... opinion that the swellings of the neck which are found among the inhabitants of the Alps are occa- sioned by the use of snow - water , and observes , with more perti- nency than is very usual with him , that the very same disease is ...
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... opinion of Hume , who seems to deny its influence altogether . Chevenix attempts to hold the balance between Hume and Montesquieu ( Essay on National Character , 8vo , 1832 , vol . i . pp . 35-37 ) . 35. ORIGIN OF THE WORD HOTTENTOT IS ...
... opinion of Hume , who seems to deny its influence altogether . Chevenix attempts to hold the balance between Hume and Montesquieu ( Essay on National Character , 8vo , 1832 , vol . i . pp . 35-37 ) . 35. ORIGIN OF THE WORD HOTTENTOT IS ...
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... opinion that our public schools which have produced so many eminent characters , are the best adapted to the genius and constitution of the English people . " 39. HOLY WATER WAS OF PAGAN ORIGIN . 317 . " Platina , in his Lives of the ...
... opinion that our public schools which have produced so many eminent characters , are the best adapted to the genius and constitution of the English people . " 39. HOLY WATER WAS OF PAGAN ORIGIN . 317 . " Platina , in his Lives of the ...
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Page 19 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
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Page 186 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk shot with silver threads; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness; instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels. As she went along in all this state and magnificence, she spoke very graciously, first to one, then to another (whether foreign ministers, or those who attend for different reasons), in English, French and Italian ; for besides being...
Page 185 - At these spectacles, and everywhere else, the English are constantly smoaking tobacco, and in this manner: they have pipes on purpose made of clay, into the farther end of which they put the Herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder, and putting fire to it, they draw the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again, through their nostrils, like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm and defluxion from the head.
Page 160 - For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke, which they hold in the other hand, upon the same dish.