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... language in which at the close of the Agricola he describes the horrors of that time is full of the bitterness , and even of the self - reproach of one who had been compelled to witness and to sanction by his presence the cruelties of ...
... language in which at the close of the Agricola he describes the horrors of that time is full of the bitterness , and even of the self - reproach of one who had been compelled to witness and to sanction by his presence the cruelties of ...
Page xv
... language permitted . The succeeding age proposed to itself a somewhat different aim . It wanted something piquant and stimulating . Hence quite a different set of literary character- istics . A style sententious and concise , sometimes ...
... language permitted . The succeeding age proposed to itself a somewhat different aim . It wanted something piquant and stimulating . Hence quite a different set of literary character- istics . A style sententious and concise , sometimes ...
Page xvi
... language which it had not known before his time , and we may venture to affirm that without him there could not have been a Tacitus . If , however , we are to measure excellence of style by its capacity of adequately representing the ...
... language which it had not known before his time , and we may venture to affirm that without him there could not have been a Tacitus . If , however , we are to measure excellence of style by its capacity of adequately representing the ...
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... language at the close of ch . 33 , that there was danger to the empire from the side of Germany . But neither was his admiration of the Germans by any means unqualified , as is clearly shown by his exposure of their vices , nor is there ...
... language at the close of ch . 33 , that there was danger to the empire from the side of Germany . But neither was his admiration of the Germans by any means unqualified , as is clearly shown by his exposure of their vices , nor is there ...
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... language and the fact of their patient submission to tribute that they could not be Germans . If we are determined that Tacitus shall not be inconsistent with himself , we must understand the words ' Germanorum natione ' to represent ...
... language and the fact of their patient submission to tribute that they could not be Germans . If we are determined that Tacitus shall not be inconsistent with himself , we must understand the words ' Germanorum natione ' to represent ...
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