 | 1802 - 886 Seiten
...contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is trace ¡ (il I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time; and a line of reference is exhibited to the mind, lor marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of whivh its powers... | |
 | 1804 - 552 Seiten
...relations to the contemporary hiftoiy of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may ufe the expreffion) through the vaft and crowded map of time ; and a line...the multiplicity of which its powers would have been loll.' p. 89. 90. Immediately after, we meet with another fine period in Mr Stewart's peculiar Itylc... | |
 | William Robertson - 1806 - 444 Seiten
...contemporary hiftory of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may ufe the expreffion) through the 7 vaft vaft and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference...hiftory of the world, could have been more happily chofen than that which commences with the fixteenth century ; in the courfe of which, (as he himfelf... | |
 | William Robertson - 1811 - 468 Seiten
...contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference...exhibited to the mind, for marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of which its powers would have been lost. , In undertaking... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 Seiten
...contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression,) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference...exhibited to the mind, for marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of which its powers would have been lost. In undertaking... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 452 Seiten
...contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference...exhibited to the mind, for marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of which its powers would have been lost. IN undertaking... | |
 | William Robertson - 1821 - 436 Seiten
...contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference...exhibited to the mind, for marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of which its powers would have been lost. In undertaking... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 438 Seiten
...contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference...exhibited to the mind, for marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of which its powers would have been lost. In undertaking... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 Seiten
...contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference...exhibited to the mind, for marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of which its powers would have been lost. In undertaking... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 Seiten
...contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference...exhibited to the mind, for marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of which its powers would have been lost. In undertaking... | |
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... is sufficiently obvious. By carrying on a connected series of important events, and indicating their relations to the contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and... 
