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... present time reached so high a point of it was eminently distinguished by general in- wealth and civilization as some parts of Italy tellectual activity . The study of the Latin had attained four hundred years ago . Histo - writers had ...
... present time reached so high a point of it was eminently distinguished by general in- wealth and civilization as some parts of Italy tellectual activity . The study of the Latin had attained four hundred years ago . Histo - writers had ...
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... present instance , the lot has fallen on perused with still greater delight , from which we should have drawn very different conclu Machiavelli : a man whose public conduct was upright and honourable , whose views of mo- sions . Books ...
... present instance , the lot has fallen on perused with still greater delight , from which we should have drawn very different conclu Machiavelli : a man whose public conduct was upright and honourable , whose views of mo- sions . Books ...
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... present us with the whole truth : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of ... presents to us characters and trains of events to which our experience furnishes us with no- thing similar , instead ...
... present us with the whole truth : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of ... presents to us characters and trains of events to which our experience furnishes us with no- thing similar , instead ...
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... present a strange contrast to the passages in which the shrewd and incredulous Thucydides men- tions the popular superstitions . It is not quite clear that Xenophon was honest in his credu- lity ; his fanaticism was in some degree ...
... present a strange contrast to the passages in which the shrewd and incredulous Thucydides men- tions the popular superstitions . It is not quite clear that Xenophon was honest in his credu- lity ; his fanaticism was in some degree ...
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... present , description of a fantastic school of writers . but because it had led to the present . He re These second - hand imitations resembled the curred to it , not to lose in proud recollections originals about as much as the ...
... present , description of a fantastic school of writers . but because it had led to the present . He re These second - hand imitations resembled the curred to it , not to lose in proud recollections originals about as much as the ...
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