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... learning meant . My admiration for Rome , my love for Italy , I pwe mainly to you . These have never failed me since . But herein , I think , you did me still greater service when you bade me never be impatient , never be in a hurry ...
... learning meant . My admiration for Rome , my love for Italy , I pwe mainly to you . These have never failed me since . But herein , I think , you did me still greater service when you bade me never be impatient , never be in a hurry ...
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... learning . Incidents in the long struggle between Siena and Florence suggest that the nature of the people had not been greatly changed by the veneer of Christ lanity spread over it , munities into the Roman franchise . When once the ...
... learning . Incidents in the long struggle between Siena and Florence suggest that the nature of the people had not been greatly changed by the veneer of Christ lanity spread over it , munities into the Roman franchise . When once the ...
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... learning . We have neither the time nor the ability . But we can all of us contribute negatively to the advancement of learning by refusing to degrade learning by the way in which we set about using other men's positive contributions as ...
... learning . We have neither the time nor the ability . But we can all of us contribute negatively to the advancement of learning by refusing to degrade learning by the way in which we set about using other men's positive contributions as ...
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... learning , at least of our learning . But I see no reason to believe that we shall come to this parlous state . Should I then during these next half - dozen terms ever refer you to the examination as a criterion or inducement of work ...
... learning , at least of our learning . But I see no reason to believe that we shall come to this parlous state . Should I then during these next half - dozen terms ever refer you to the examination as a criterion or inducement of work ...
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... learning . It may be on the philosophical or historical ( yes , modern as well as ancient ) or archæological or philological side : this from this point of view does not matter . But you might , each one of you , dig a little corner of ...
... learning . It may be on the philosophical or historical ( yes , modern as well as ancient ) or archæological or philological side : this from this point of view does not matter . But you might , each one of you , dig a little corner of ...
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Page 75 - ... tum vos, o Tyrii, stirpem et genus omne futurum exercete odiis, cinerique haec mittite nostro munera. nullus amor populis, nec foedera sunto. exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, qui face Dardanios ferroque sequare colonos, nunc, olim, quocumque dabunt se tempore vires. litora litoribus contraria, fluctibus undas inprecor, arma armis ; pugnent ipsique nepotesque.
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Page 131 - And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their tired hands, and rest Never yet comes more near, Gloom settles slowly down over their breast. And while they try to stem The waves of mournful thought by which they are prest, Death in their prison reaches them, Unfreed, having seen nothing, still unblest.