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... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improve ment of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in ...
... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improve ment of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in ...
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... cause , Oldmixon , for instance , and Catherine Macaulay , have , to say the least , been more distinguished by zeal than either by candour or by skill . On the other side are the most authoritative and the most popular historical works ...
... cause , Oldmixon , for instance , and Catherine Macaulay , have , to say the least , been more distinguished by zeal than either by candour or by skill . On the other side are the most authoritative and the most popular historical works ...
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... causes , it was thought necessary to keep under close restraint . One part of the empire there was so unhappily cir ... cause he was a catholic ; but they excluded tled to the same praise . They could not trust the king . He had no ...
... causes , it was thought necessary to keep under close restraint . One part of the empire there was so unhappily cir ... cause he was a catholic ; but they excluded tled to the same praise . They could not trust the king . He had no ...
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... cause they had themselves taken away the key | Hostile theories correct each other . The scat of knowledge . If they were assailed with blind tered elements of truth cease to conflict , and ury , it was because they had exacted an begin ...
... cause they had themselves taken away the key | Hostile theories correct each other . The scat of knowledge . If they were assailed with blind tered elements of truth cease to conflict , and ury , it was because they had exacted an begin ...
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... cause of freedom . He whom it removed was a captive and a hostage . His heir , to whom the allegiance of every royalist was instantly transferred , was at large . The Presbyterians could never have been perfectly reconciled to the ...
... cause of freedom . He whom it removed was a captive and a hostage . His heir , to whom the allegiance of every royalist was instantly transferred , was at large . The Presbyterians could never have been perfectly reconciled to the ...
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