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... reading portions of a wider range of authors than they now usually do . The claims of Curtius are dealt with in the intro- duction . As we are not preparing this book with the view of furnishing candidates for some particular examina ...
... reading portions of a wider range of authors than they now usually do . The claims of Curtius are dealt with in the intro- duction . As we are not preparing this book with the view of furnishing candidates for some particular examina ...
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... reader is the unevenness of the writer . Like Tigellius in Horace , nil fuit umquam sic impar sibi . In the many ... readers . But in the ordinary course of the narrative , when the matter has no striking interest of its own to take the ...
... reader is the unevenness of the writer . Like Tigellius in Horace , nil fuit umquam sic impar sibi . In the many ... readers . But in the ordinary course of the narrative , when the matter has no striking interest of its own to take the ...
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... reader . A few of his more notable usages may perhaps be re- corded with advantage here . ( a ) the continual use of quippe ( = ' you see ' ) as an equivalent for nam , enim , scilicet . ( 6 ) the equally frequent use of ceterum , as ...
... reader . A few of his more notable usages may perhaps be re- corded with advantage here . ( a ) the continual use of quippe ( = ' you see ' ) as an equivalent for nam , enim , scilicet . ( 6 ) the equally frequent use of ceterum , as ...
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... readers and teachers of the age of revival . Before the rise of historical criticism , when wisdom was sought directly from ' the ancients , ' his moral sentences and epigrammatic phrases would be certain to find favour . A narrative of ...
... readers and teachers of the age of revival . Before the rise of historical criticism , when wisdom was sought directly from ' the ancients , ' his moral sentences and epigrammatic phrases would be certain to find favour . A narrative of ...
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... reading critically , without light unreasoning belief , should be acquired early , and that Curtius is eminently adapted for this purpose . However little we may know of the author's personality , we soon feel that he was a real man ...
... reading critically , without light unreasoning belief , should be acquired early , and that Curtius is eminently adapted for this purpose . However little we may know of the author's personality , we soon feel that he was a real man ...
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Alexander in India: A Portion of the History Quintus Curtius W. E. Heitland,T. E. Raven No preview available - 2019 |
Alexander in Indi: A Portion of the History of Quintus Curtius (1879) W. E. Heitland,T. E. Raven No preview available - 2008 |
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