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... passed by , and so much decanted and celebrated by the verses of poets , or the Tempe or Paradise of the world insomuch that I said to myself that this country was fitter to be an habitation for the immortall Gods than for mortall men ...
... passed by , and so much decanted and celebrated by the verses of poets , or the Tempe or Paradise of the world insomuch that I said to myself that this country was fitter to be an habitation for the immortall Gods than for mortall men ...
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... passed away . The Professor's famous lectures remain unpublished , manuscripts cherished on many a dusty bookshelf and in many an English country house and parson- age . To many generations of Oxford men the lecturer's incisive voice ...
... passed away . The Professor's famous lectures remain unpublished , manuscripts cherished on many a dusty bookshelf and in many an English country house and parson- age . To many generations of Oxford men the lecturer's incisive voice ...
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... passed laws . But even such laws were not valid until they received the sanction of the patrician Senators . This ... passing resolutions of their own . Any such decree of a " Concilium Plebis " was , however , as little binding upon any ...
... passed laws . But even such laws were not valid until they received the sanction of the patrician Senators . This ... passing resolutions of their own . Any such decree of a " Concilium Plebis " was , however , as little binding upon any ...
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... passed away beneath the earth , and vanished , yet implacable , within the shadowy groves of the dead . But it is not only due to historian and to poet - it is in virtue of the immense stake at issue for all future generations , that no ...
... passed away beneath the earth , and vanished , yet implacable , within the shadowy groves of the dead . But it is not only due to historian and to poet - it is in virtue of the immense stake at issue for all future generations , that no ...
Page 88
... a study of great value and opportunity . Here I can only call attention in passing to the " Equites " and their importance in politics . combined to oppose the proposal and thus to rush the 88 THE STUDY OF ROMAN HISTORY.
... a study of great value and opportunity . Here I can only call attention in passing to the " Equites " and their importance in politics . combined to oppose the proposal and thus to rush the 88 THE STUDY OF ROMAN HISTORY.
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