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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... hand in hand with religion , in so far as it treats men as ends not means , and by its ordered variety of life gives freer place to development . It is just these things , however , that are in question today ; there we are at the Cross ...
... hand in hand with religion , in so far as it treats men as ends not means , and by its ordered variety of life gives freer place to development . It is just these things , however , that are in question today ; there we are at the Cross ...
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... hand , the modern system , founded on nationality , only began to show itself at the French Revolution . Hence ... hand the Bourbon family gain a kingdom in spite of a solemn renuncia- tion ; on the other hand , a rearrangement of the ...
... hand , the modern system , founded on nationality , only began to show itself at the French Revolution . Hence ... hand the Bourbon family gain a kingdom in spite of a solemn renuncia- tion ; on the other hand , a rearrangement of the ...
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... hands of the infidels . The prudent despair of Con- stantine cast away the purple : amidst the tumult he fell by an unknown hand , and his body was buried under a mountain of the slain . After his death resistance and order were no more ...
... hands of the infidels . The prudent despair of Con- stantine cast away the purple : amidst the tumult he fell by an unknown hand , and his body was buried under a mountain of the slain . After his death resistance and order were no more ...
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Praise of history | 3 |
Accident in history | 9 |
Sir Thomas Browne | 18 |
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