A Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations: Originally Prefixed to a Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and EnglishPrinted at the Clarendon Press, 1778 - 288 |
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... systems thinks not like other men : he forms nations , and he annihilates them : he establishes em- pires , and he ... system of heterogeneous figments . Yet writers of ability will make even error refpectable . Though their fyftems ...
... systems thinks not like other men : he forms nations , and he annihilates them : he establishes em- pires , and he ... system of heterogeneous figments . Yet writers of ability will make even error refpectable . Though their fyftems ...
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... of force . It is error alone we should wish to reprobate it is the path of truth we should with to clear . THE chief object of History is to improve the great system of focial life , by instructing mankind 42 DISSERTATION .
... of force . It is error alone we should wish to reprobate it is the path of truth we should with to clear . THE chief object of History is to improve the great system of focial life , by instructing mankind 42 DISSERTATION .
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... system of focial life , by instructing mankind in the experience of former ages . To answer this important end , it is by no means neceffary that every fact we read should be ftrictly true in all its parts . The Cyro- pædia of Xenophon ...
... system of focial life , by instructing mankind in the experience of former ages . To answer this important end , it is by no means neceffary that every fact we read should be ftrictly true in all its parts . The Cyro- pædia of Xenophon ...
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... system apparently adopted by every fubfequent chronologer and compiler . Dio- dorus appears to have been the model . We have , in confequence , ancient events , not as they really happened , but as it was thought they fhould have ...
... system apparently adopted by every fubfequent chronologer and compiler . Dio- dorus appears to have been the model . We have , in confequence , ancient events , not as they really happened , but as it was thought they fhould have ...
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... systems by points of a most doubtful complexion , and re- jecting others of a far more probable appear- ance That a refemblance of names is often preferred to a confiftency in facts : That the inventions of fuperftition , or the ...
... systems by points of a most doubtful complexion , and re- jecting others of a far more probable appear- ance That a refemblance of names is often preferred to a confiftency in facts : That the inventions of fuperftition , or the ...
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