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... say - - - the Nation of London , and not the City of London ; but of Rome in her palmy days , nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic . A million and a half of souls that population , apart from any other distinctions ...
... say - - - the Nation of London , and not the City of London ; but of Rome in her palmy days , nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic . A million and a half of souls that population , apart from any other distinctions ...
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... say , that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the ...
... say , that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the ...
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... say , amongst themselves and concur ring also with a prophecy of older date , which was totally independent of them all . There is another and somewhat sublime story of the same class , which belongs to the most interesting moment of ...
... say , amongst themselves and concur ring also with a prophecy of older date , which was totally independent of them all . There is another and somewhat sublime story of the same class , which belongs to the most interesting moment of ...
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... say- ing , " Sylla potuit , ego non potero ? " And the fact was , that if , from the death of Sylla , Rome recovered some transient show of constitutional integrity , that happened not by any lingering virtue that remained in her ...
... say- ing , " Sylla potuit , ego non potero ? " And the fact was , that if , from the death of Sylla , Rome recovered some transient show of constitutional integrity , that happened not by any lingering virtue that remained in her ...
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... say without meaning to adopt as gospel truths all the party re- proaches of Anthony . Certainly he was utterly unfur- nished by nature with those endowments which seemed to be indispensable in a successor to the power of the great ...
... say without meaning to adopt as gospel truths all the party re- proaches of Anthony . Certainly he was utterly unfur- nished by nature with those endowments which seemed to be indispensable in a successor to the power of the great ...
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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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