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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... wealth : a man , they say , who is poor cannot rule well - he has not the leisure . If , then , election of magistrates for their wealth be characteristic of oligarchy , and election for merit of aristocracy , there will be a third form ...
... wealth : a man , they say , who is poor cannot rule well - he has not the leisure . If , then , election of magistrates for their wealth be characteristic of oligarchy , and election for merit of aristocracy , there will be a third form ...
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... Wealth and honours , the offices of the state , and the ceremonies of re- ligion , were almost exclusively possessed by the former ; who , preserving the purity of their blood with the most insulting jealousy , held their clients in a ...
... Wealth and honours , the offices of the state , and the ceremonies of re- ligion , were almost exclusively possessed by the former ; who , preserving the purity of their blood with the most insulting jealousy , held their clients in a ...
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... wealth was enormous , its distribution was partial . During the fifteen years which preceded Waterloo , the number of the population rose from ten to thirteen millions , and this rapid increase kept down the rate of wages , which would ...
... wealth was enormous , its distribution was partial . During the fifteen years which preceded Waterloo , the number of the population rose from ten to thirteen millions , and this rapid increase kept down the rate of wages , which would ...
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Praise of history | 3 |
Accident in history | 9 |
Sir Thomas Browne | 18 |
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