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... appears as though the exaggerated importance at- tached to what is to a great extent an antiquarian point , has distracted the attention of most writers from what is at least of equal interest , the political effects of the very much ...
... appears as though the exaggerated importance at- tached to what is to a great extent an antiquarian point , has distracted the attention of most writers from what is at least of equal interest , the political effects of the very much ...
Page xiii
... appear self - evident . The cause of this decline ( for this it must be called ) appears to be that while the older authors were willing to learn from the Greeks , and were content to follow Thucydides , Plato , and Aristotle ...
... appear self - evident . The cause of this decline ( for this it must be called ) appears to be that while the older authors were willing to learn from the Greeks , and were content to follow Thucydides , Plato , and Aristotle ...
Page xv
... appear therefore exactly as they were written , and I have since then made no alterations of any kind in the text or notes , except linguistic corrections . I have added in an appendix a few notes in which I have pointed out the places ...
... appear therefore exactly as they were written , and I have since then made no alterations of any kind in the text or notes , except linguistic corrections . I have added in an appendix a few notes in which I have pointed out the places ...
Page xvii
... appears often inaccurately . The defect in the work to which I have already referred , explains also how it is that these later writers tell so little of the constitution of the 5th century . They depended on Aristotle and the orators ...
... appears often inaccurately . The defect in the work to which I have already referred , explains also how it is that these later writers tell so little of the constitution of the 5th century . They depended on Aristotle and the orators ...
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... appear so ludicrous that it requires some effort for us to believe that it ever did prevail in a civilised community . There can be few people who , when they first hear that it existed at Athens and in other Greek states , do not ...
... appear so ludicrous that it requires some effort for us to believe that it ever did prevail in a civilised community . There can be few people who , when they first hear that it existed at Athens and in other Greek states , do not ...
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