 It will be my endeavour to relate the history of the people as well as the history of the government, to trace the progress of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste, to portray the manners...  The Sewanee Review - Page 4951916Full view - About this book
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...history of the government, to trace the progress of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects, and the changes of literary taste,...amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having deicended below the dignity of history, if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth... | |
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...history of the Government ; to trace the progress of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste,...neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in '_dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having... | |
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...history of the government; to trace the progress of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of ngs entertainments. I shall cheerfully bearthe reproach of having descended below the dignity of histo.... | |
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...history of the Government ; to trace the progresa of useful and ornamental arta, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste,...manners of successive generations, and not to pass bv with neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in "dress, furniture, repasts, and public... | |
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...history of the government, to trace the progress of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste,...dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I Yet, unless I greatly deceive myself, the general effect of this chequered narrative will be to excite... | |
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...history of the government, to trace the progress of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste,...neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dres% furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bcar the reproach of having descended... | |
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...history of the government, to trace the progrese of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the ris» of religious sects and the changes of literary taste, to portray the manners of successive generations, anil not to pass by with neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts,... | |
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