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... Rome . He has certainly succeeded in a re- markable manner in compressing into a small space a great deal of useful and characteristic information , while avoiding the dreariness of a dry epitome , or of a mere dictionary of ancient ...
... Rome . He has certainly succeeded in a re- markable manner in compressing into a small space a great deal of useful and characteristic information , while avoiding the dreariness of a dry epitome , or of a mere dictionary of ancient ...
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... Rome in their present shape . Thus his most important productions were well nigh consigned to perpetual oblivion , in which case many of the modes in which we think and speak at the present day would have been different from what they ...
... Rome in their present shape . Thus his most important productions were well nigh consigned to perpetual oblivion , in which case many of the modes in which we think and speak at the present day would have been different from what they ...
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... Rome , about fifty years before the Christian era , shared the honours awarded to the sacred books of different nations , and were subse- quently adopted by the Catholic Church for the instruction of youth in logic and metaphysics . In ...
... Rome , about fifty years before the Christian era , shared the honours awarded to the sacred books of different nations , and were subse- quently adopted by the Catholic Church for the instruction of youth in logic and metaphysics . In ...
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... Rome , but which has not found its way into the modern drama , although not unknown in society as ' the diner out . ' Then there was the female slave , corresponding with our pert waiting - maid , the old nurse , and , occasionally ...
... Rome , but which has not found its way into the modern drama , although not unknown in society as ' the diner out . ' Then there was the female slave , corresponding with our pert waiting - maid , the old nurse , and , occasionally ...
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... Rome would not permit the freedom of speech on the stage which delighted the democracy at Athens . The dramatists of those days were disciples of Menander , and drew their characters from such general types of human nature as would ...
... Rome would not permit the freedom of speech on the stage which delighted the democracy at Athens . The dramatists of those days were disciples of Menander , and drew their characters from such general types of human nature as would ...
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