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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... head . The Circus , or Hippodrome , was a stately building about four hundred paces in length , and one hundred in ... heads had once supported the golden tripod which , after the defeat of Xerxes , was consecrated in the temple of ...
... head . The Circus , or Hippodrome , was a stately building about four hundred paces in length , and one hundred in ... heads had once supported the golden tripod which , after the defeat of Xerxes , was consecrated in the temple of ...
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... head between both his hands .... And thus it stood with Antonius . Now for his army by sea , that fought before the head or foreland of Actium : they held out a long time , and nothing troubled them more than a great boisterous wind ...
... head between both his hands .... And thus it stood with Antonius . Now for his army by sea , that fought before the head or foreland of Actium : they held out a long time , and nothing troubled them more than a great boisterous wind ...
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... head , the other with its point downwards , so that the two wedges in each groove lay heads and points ; on which the one was easily driven down upon the other . A couple of wedges were also pitched at the top of each groove ; the dor ...
... head , the other with its point downwards , so that the two wedges in each groove lay heads and points ; on which the one was easily driven down upon the other . A couple of wedges were also pitched at the top of each groove ; the dor ...
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Praise of history | 3 |
Accident in history | 9 |
Sir Thomas Browne | 18 |
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