"Mr. Buckle was happily released by his father's liberality; and by his death, in 1840, he came into possession of a h…"

"[H]is book [History of Civilization]... must always be regarded as an extraordinary proof of a mind at once sanguine …"

"Having gained a prize for mathematics, and being desired by his parents to name his own additional reward, he claimed…"

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"And, notwithstanding a few exceptions, we do undoubtedly find that the most truly eminent men have had not only their…"

"[I]n the year 1857—that is to say, about twenty years after the idea of a History of Human Progress in England first …"