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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLX. OCTOBER, 1845. Vol. LVIII.

CONTENTS.

Montesquieu, 389
A Reminiscence of Boyhood. By Delta, 408
De Burtin on Pictures, 413
Manner and Matter, 431
Marston; or, the Memoirs of a Statesman. Conclusion. 439
How we Got Up the Glenmutchkin Railway, 453
The Science of Languages. Kavanagh, 467
Scrambles in Monmouthshire, 474
Neapolitan Sketches, 486
A Meditation, 494
On the Old Year, 495
Corali, _ib._
Biographical Sketch of Frank Abney Hastings, 496

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLX. OCTOBER, 1845. Vol. LVIII.

MONTESQUIEU.

Montesquieu is beyond all doubt the founder of the philosophy of
history. In many of its most important branches, he has carried it to
a degree of perfection which has never since been surpassed. He first
looked on human affairs with the eye of philosophic observation; he
first sought to discover the l