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... historian who had set himself to tell the whole story of Rome's advance to universal dominion ) 1 it is impossible to dissever methods of conquest from arts of government . The dynamic and the static were two aspects of the same ...
... historian who had set himself to tell the whole story of Rome's advance to universal dominion ) 1 it is impossible to dissever methods of conquest from arts of government . The dynamic and the static were two aspects of the same ...
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... historian , philosopher , and poet was due to the second tendency to Disunion or Separation , which is so marked a feature of all Greek history . The feeling of the worth of the individual himself , and of the responsibility of the ...
... historian , philosopher , and poet was due to the second tendency to Disunion or Separation , which is so marked a feature of all Greek history . The feeling of the worth of the individual himself , and of the responsibility of the ...
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... historian both . Then let his monograph grow into one on Roman harbours , " and let him roam from Ravenna , Rimini , and Ancona to Civita Vecchia and Pisa . But when would he return to Oxford to write ? Ireland may be the land nearest ...
... historian both . Then let his monograph grow into one on Roman harbours , " and let him roam from Ravenna , Rimini , and Ancona to Civita Vecchia and Pisa . But when would he return to Oxford to write ? Ireland may be the land nearest ...
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... historian Polybius , is the truer test of a nation . It were little advantage to Rome to gain victory after victory , to sack city after city , to crush tribe after tribe , if thereby she did but acquire rule over an ever - growing ...
... historian Polybius , is the truer test of a nation . It were little advantage to Rome to gain victory after victory , to sack city after city , to crush tribe after tribe , if thereby she did but acquire rule over an ever - growing ...
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... historians of profound knowledge and wide repute scrutinised microscopically the principles of Roman Criminal Law and Procedure.1 Over these again towered the giant figure of the German Intellectual Super - Man . In such fields of study ...
... historians of profound knowledge and wide repute scrutinised microscopically the principles of Roman Criminal Law and Procedure.1 Over these again towered the giant figure of the German Intellectual Super - Man . In such fields of study ...
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