The World of Man: Prose Passages, Chiefly from the Works of the Great Historians, Classical and EnglishThe University Press, 1933 - 313 páginas |
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... fighting , but suffering , is another testimony peculiar to this people : they affirm that Christianity teacheth people to beat their swords into ploughshares , and their spears into pruning hooks , and to learn war no more , that so ...
... fighting , but suffering , is another testimony peculiar to this people : they affirm that Christianity teacheth people to beat their swords into ploughshares , and their spears into pruning hooks , and to learn war no more , that so ...
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... fighting for religion , and fighting for sugar hogs- heads instead : the outcasts of the Batavian marshes suddenly becoming the first nation in Europe , and the Hague the centre of the world's diplomacy : the humble trade - guild grown ...
... fighting for religion , and fighting for sugar hogs- heads instead : the outcasts of the Batavian marshes suddenly becoming the first nation in Europe , and the Hague the centre of the world's diplomacy : the humble trade - guild grown ...
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... fighting in the narrowest space ever known , being together little short of two hundred ) , the regular attacks with the beak were few , there being no oppor- tunity of backing water or of breaking the line ; while the collisions caused ...
... fighting in the narrowest space ever known , being together little short of two hundred ) , the regular attacks with the beak were few , there being no oppor- tunity of backing water or of breaking the line ; while the collisions caused ...
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Praise of history | 3 |
Accident in history | 9 |
Sir Thomas Browne | 18 |
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