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... facts , either of ancient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude ; and not many if we except the cities of Greece , none at all in the grandeur of architectural display . Speak- ing ...
... facts , either of ancient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude ; and not many if we except the cities of Greece , none at all in the grandeur of architectural display . Speak- ing ...
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... facts which have survived , that each of the four great empires successively triumphed over an antagonist , barbarous in comparison of itself , and each by and through that very superiority in the arts and policy of civilization . Rome ...
... facts which have survived , that each of the four great empires successively triumphed over an antagonist , barbarous in comparison of itself , and each by and through that very superiority in the arts and policy of civilization . Rome ...
Side 15
... fact no vinculum of social organization which held them together , but the ideal vinculum of a common fealty , and of submission to the same sceptre . This is not like the tie of manners , operative even where it is not perceived , but ...
... fact no vinculum of social organization which held them together , but the ideal vinculum of a common fealty , and of submission to the same sceptre . This is not like the tie of manners , operative even where it is not perceived , but ...
Side 19
... fact , that the founders of the great empires all had some connection , more or less , with the temple of Jerusalem . Melancthon even observes it in his Sketch of Universal History , as worthy of notice that Pompey died , as it were ...
... fact , that the founders of the great empires all had some connection , more or less , with the temple of Jerusalem . Melancthon even observes it in his Sketch of Universal History , as worthy of notice that Pompey died , as it were ...
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... fact , his own dream grew out of the impression which it had made . This way of linking the two anecdotes , as cause and effect , would also bring a third anecdote under the same nexus . We are told that Calpurnia , the last wife of ...
... fact , his own dream grew out of the impression which it had made . This way of linking the two anecdotes , as cause and effect , would also bring a third anecdote under the same nexus . We are told that Calpurnia , the last wife of ...
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