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... respects it was absolutely unique . There was but one Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of ancient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of ...
... respects it was absolutely unique . There was but one Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of ancient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of ...
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... respects the simple grandeur of magnitude , builds her power upon sterility . She has it in her power to seduce an invading foe into vast circles of starvation , of which the radii measure a thousand leagues . and snow are confederates ...
... respects the simple grandeur of magnitude , builds her power upon sterility . She has it in her power to seduce an invading foe into vast circles of starvation , of which the radii measure a thousand leagues . and snow are confederates ...
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... respects artificial ; but the power itself was natural , and not subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the commercial empires of our days , ( for all are in part commercial . ) The depression , the reverses , of Rome , were ...
... respects artificial ; but the power itself was natural , and not subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the commercial empires of our days , ( for all are in part commercial . ) The depression , the reverses , of Rome , were ...
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... respects it was ) utterly and extravagantly to falsify the character of the great Dictator , by no single trait could he more effectually have fulfilled that purpose , nor in fewer words , than by this expressive passage , " Gau ...
... respects it was ) utterly and extravagantly to falsify the character of the great Dictator , by no single trait could he more effectually have fulfilled that purpose , nor in fewer words , than by this expressive passage , " Gau ...
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... respect which he might think proper to pay , must have been imputed by all parties to the lingering superstitions of custom , to involuntary habit , to court dissimulation , or to the decencies of external form , and the prescriptive ...
... respect which he might think proper to pay , must have been imputed by all parties to the lingering superstitions of custom , to involuntary habit , to court dissimulation , or to the decencies of external form , and the prescriptive ...
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De Quincey's Writings: Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men ..., Bind 1 Thomas De Quincey Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2006 |
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