The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... king throughout all the Eastern world in the third century B.C. who did not set before him Alexander as the ideal of what a monarch ought to be . His transcendent figure so dominates the imagination of his own and the following age ...
... king throughout all the Eastern world in the third century B.C. who did not set before him Alexander as the ideal of what a monarch ought to be . His transcendent figure so dominates the imagination of his own and the following age ...
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... kings had been try- ing to assert themselves as real Greeks . They had succeeded in having their splendid genealogy accepted an undeniable gain in those days , — but their other claims were as yet hardly es- tablished . It is true they ...
... kings had been try- ing to assert themselves as real Greeks . They had succeeded in having their splendid genealogy accepted an undeniable gain in those days , — but their other claims were as yet hardly es- tablished . It is true they ...
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... king in a sense quite novel and foreign to the Greeks . They recognized one king , the king of Persia , as a legitimate sovereign , ruling in great splendor , but over barbarians . So they were ready to grant such a thing as a king over ...
... king in a sense quite novel and foreign to the Greeks . They recognized one king , the king of Persia , as a legitimate sovereign , ruling in great splendor , but over barbarians . So they were ready to grant such a thing as a king over ...
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... kings , and when the summoning of an assembly lies altogether in the king's hands . Except in time of war , when its members were together under arms , the assembly had prob- ably no way of combining for a protest , and the low ...
... kings , and when the summoning of an assembly lies altogether in the king's hands . Except in time of war , when its members were together under arms , the assembly had prob- ably no way of combining for a protest , and the low ...
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... king and nobles had been in Macedonia much as they were in the Middle Ages in Europe . There were large landed proprietors , and many of them had sovereign rights in their own provinces . Not only did the great lords gather about the king ...
... king and nobles had been in Macedonia much as they were in the Middle Ages in Europe . There were large landed proprietors , and many of them had sovereign rights in their own provinces . Not only did the great lords gather about the king ...
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