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... century of study and meditation . But it is not thus with music , with painting , or with sculpture . Still less is it thus with po etry . The progress of refinement rarely sup plies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may ...
... century of study and meditation . But it is not thus with music , with painting , or with sculpture . Still less is it thus with po etry . The progress of refinement rarely sup plies these arts with better objects of imitation . It may ...
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... centuries They witnessed the arrangement of the pul which followed the downfall of the Roman Em- leys , and the ... century it attained its full vigour , and , after a long and doubtful conflict , it triumphed over the abili- ties ...
... centuries They witnessed the arrangement of the pul which followed the downfall of the Roman Em- leys , and the ... century it attained its full vigour , and , after a long and doubtful conflict , it triumphed over the abili- ties ...
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... century came forth the Di- The operations of the commercial machine vine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest were facilitated by many useful and beautiful work of imagination which had appeared since inventions . We doubt whether ...
... century came forth the Di- The operations of the commercial machine vine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest were facilitated by many useful and beautiful work of imagination which had appeared since inventions . We doubt whether ...
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... century , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of Ætolia , who were at least ten generations behind their countrymen in civilization and intelligence . All the causes which produced these effects among ...
... century , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of Ætolia , who were at least ten generations behind their countrymen in civilization and intelligence . All the causes which produced these effects among ...
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... century , the rude mountaineers of Switzerland dissolved the spell , and astounded the most experienced generals ... centuries . Italy , as we have already remarked , the grow- Mighty armies fight from sunrise to sunset . A ing power of ...
... century , the rude mountaineers of Switzerland dissolved the spell , and astounded the most experienced generals ... centuries . Italy , as we have already remarked , the grow- Mighty armies fight from sunrise to sunset . A ing power of ...
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