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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... strength . The centre of each division of the town was occupied by a fortress . In the one stood the palace of the kings , surrounded by a wall of great strength and size : in the other was the sacred precinct of Jupiter Belus , a ...
... strength . The centre of each division of the town was occupied by a fortress . In the one stood the palace of the kings , surrounded by a wall of great strength and size : in the other was the sacred precinct of Jupiter Belus , a ...
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... strength of the muscles is far inferior in value to the strength of the mind . It is probable that , among the hundred and twenty thousand soldiers who were marshalled round Neerwinden under all the standards of Western Europe , the two ...
... strength of the muscles is far inferior in value to the strength of the mind . It is probable that , among the hundred and twenty thousand soldiers who were marshalled round Neerwinden under all the standards of Western Europe , the two ...
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... strength of their newly - acquired riches . For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger , and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection . And it was ...
... strength of their newly - acquired riches . For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger , and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection . And it was ...
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Praise of history | 3 |
Accident in history | 9 |
Sir Thomas Browne | 18 |
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