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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... less distinctive , not less unique in its kind , has been the place which the Greek , and especially the Athenian , intellect has occupied in history . It has been the great dynamic agency in European civilisation . Directly or ...
... less distinctive , not less unique in its kind , has been the place which the Greek , and especially the Athenian , intellect has occupied in history . It has been the great dynamic agency in European civilisation . Directly or ...
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... less imperceptibly , and forms the Holy Roman Empire as the equivalent of its own spiritual greatness in the sphere of secular authority . These two institutions , the crowning monuments of Italian creative genius , dominate the Middle ...
... less imperceptibly , and forms the Holy Roman Empire as the equivalent of its own spiritual greatness in the sphere of secular authority . These two institutions , the crowning monuments of Italian creative genius , dominate the Middle ...
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... less sure of itself , it is true , than the Greek , but still for the time being assured that in its novel sense of intellectual ex- pansion lay the answer to life's problems . For the time being , Renaissance art did , more or less ...
... less sure of itself , it is true , than the Greek , but still for the time being assured that in its novel sense of intellectual ex- pansion lay the answer to life's problems . For the time being , Renaissance art did , more or less ...
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Praise of history | 3 |
Accident in history | 9 |
Sir Thomas Browne | 18 |
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