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... interest of their history is small save to those who would morbidly dissect a body politic full of stagna- tion ... interests . It was the pressure from outside threaten- ing his Freedom which made any such association possible , and ...
... interest of their history is small save to those who would morbidly dissect a body politic full of stagna- tion ... interests . It was the pressure from outside threaten- ing his Freedom which made any such association possible , and ...
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... interest , of sympathy , and of language ? It was a short - lived dream . On the homeland Alexander bestowed peace : on the ruder tribes of the East the elements of culture . There was no guarantee of permanence in these gifts . On the ...
... interest , of sympathy , and of language ? It was a short - lived dream . On the homeland Alexander bestowed peace : on the ruder tribes of the East the elements of culture . There was no guarantee of permanence in these gifts . On the ...
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... interest . The second instrument of Augustus ' government which supplied this want was Cæsar - Worship . It was this which gave to loyalty and to patriotism that strongest of all sanctions , the sanction of religion . From that Prince's ...
... interest . The second instrument of Augustus ' government which supplied this want was Cæsar - Worship . It was this which gave to loyalty and to patriotism that strongest of all sanctions , the sanction of religion . From that Prince's ...
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... daily crumbling away into the devouring river ; the keen interest in its welfare shown by the early Emperors : the Claudian harbour , now a It is with the persons of these same seven Roman 32 THE STUDY OF ROMAN HISTORY.
... daily crumbling away into the devouring river ; the keen interest in its welfare shown by the early Emperors : the Claudian harbour , now a It is with the persons of these same seven Roman 32 THE STUDY OF ROMAN HISTORY.
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... interest with biographies of statesmen or deeds of warriors , claims both by its intrinsic value and by its greater difficulty both appreciation and reflection . Of such study , the Organisation of Italy by Rome forms an indispensable ...
... interest with biographies of statesmen or deeds of warriors , claims both by its intrinsic value and by its greater difficulty both appreciation and reflection . Of such study , the Organisation of Italy by Rome forms an indispensable ...
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