 If we would study with profit the history of our ancestors, we must be constantly on our guard against that delusion which the well known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read...  The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal - Page 2041861Full view - About this book
 | 1872 - 500 pages
...Kapitels der Geschichle: If we would study with profit the history of our ancestors, we must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. Durch die Bedeutung „möchten" geht would in „wünschen" über, so dass would hier fast geradezu... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...thatdelusion which the well known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency towards perfection. In every human being there is... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 714 pages
...delusion which the well-known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live." He illustrates this a little farther on. "Could the England of Kill.'i be, by some magical process,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...delusion which the well known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency towards perfection. In every human being there is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 pages
...delusion which the well-known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency towards perfection. In every human being there is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pages
...delusion which the well known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency towards perfection. In every human being there is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1858 - 480 pages
...delusion which the well known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency towards perfection. In every human being there is... | |
 | 1861 - 388 pages
...these days of progress — of the electric telegraph, the steam-engine, and a thousand sciences — to imagine the human history of less than two hundred...Second to the tyrant James. " Could the England of 16S5 be by some magical process set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 668 pages
...of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of wliich we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency towards perfection. In every human being there is... | |
 | 1869 - 590 pages
...delusion which the well-known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. Everything has been changed but the great features of nature, and a few massive and durable works of... | |
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