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... called you always for close on thirty years : I ask your acceptance of the dedication of this little book , as a small recognition of unfailing kindness on your part and of grati- tude on mine . You were my sole tutor in Roman history ...
... called you always for close on thirty years : I ask your acceptance of the dedication of this little book , as a small recognition of unfailing kindness on your part and of grati- tude on mine . You were my sole tutor in Roman history ...
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... called their caricature of Christianity a beastly life . To find its justifi- cation in the circumstances of the time ( an apologia for the selfish- ness of the creed ) is no small tribute to Roman Order , the ruin of which produced ...
... called their caricature of Christianity a beastly life . To find its justifi- cation in the circumstances of the time ( an apologia for the selfish- ness of the creed ) is no small tribute to Roman Order , the ruin of which produced ...
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... called for decision by Rome's rulers ; to examine , however briefly , the character of some of the ancient records concerning it , on which our knowledge of it must be founded ; and to suggest , at least by constant implication , that ...
... called for decision by Rome's rulers ; to examine , however briefly , the character of some of the ancient records concerning it , on which our knowledge of it must be founded ; and to suggest , at least by constant implication , that ...
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... called the Palatine and the Esquiline . On the river's western bank there rises a loftier hill , the Janiculum , scene of Garibaldi's heroic defence of Republican Rome against the assaulting French in 1849 . To one standing beside the ...
... called the Palatine and the Esquiline . On the river's western bank there rises a loftier hill , the Janiculum , scene of Garibaldi's heroic defence of Republican Rome against the assaulting French in 1849 . To one standing beside the ...
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... called him ) inspire ? 2 Greenidge , Roman Public Life , p . 298 : a book whose re- markable merit is sorely hampered by closeness of print and dullness of style . Close on the heels of Rome's victory over her kins- 38 THE STUDY OF ...
... called him ) inspire ? 2 Greenidge , Roman Public Life , p . 298 : a book whose re- markable merit is sorely hampered by closeness of print and dullness of style . Close on the heels of Rome's victory over her kins- 38 THE STUDY OF ...
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