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... side of Italy came in the course of centuries to acquire an Empire which included all Western and Southern Europe , the North African coast , the Valley of the Nile as far south as Assuan , the shores of the Black Sea , and a great part ...
... side of Italy came in the course of centuries to acquire an Empire which included all Western and Southern Europe , the North African coast , the Valley of the Nile as far south as Assuan , the shores of the Black Sea , and a great part ...
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... side by side , the one of Unity , the other of Disunion . His individualism made the Greek realise his contrast with the non - Hellene , the alien , the Bápßapos . He produced in con- sequence a lively theory of " Pan - Hellenism ...
... side by side , the one of Unity , the other of Disunion . His individualism made the Greek realise his contrast with the non - Hellene , the alien , the Bápßapos . He produced in con- sequence a lively theory of " Pan - Hellenism ...
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... side with the larger number of battalions . One ever - famous city still recalls the hero's name . Elsewhere among the jostling peoples of the East whom he subdued , a few rare coins or rarer legends alone preserve the memory of the ...
... side with the larger number of battalions . One ever - famous city still recalls the hero's name . Elsewhere among the jostling peoples of the East whom he subdued , a few rare coins or rarer legends alone preserve the memory of the ...
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... side - stream of tendency , but which now for the first time joined the main river of world history . But when the new religion , Christianity , challenged Cæsar - Worship for its pride of place , the bitterest of struggles ensued . By ...
... side - stream of tendency , but which now for the first time joined the main river of world history . But when the new religion , Christianity , challenged Cæsar - Worship for its pride of place , the bitterest of struggles ensued . By ...
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... side . Jagged ruins of Faesulae's walls , Sutrium's squalid beggary , Bolsena tragedy - encompassed , some lonely monastery in the desolate hills fit place for contest with Satanic power , the wilderness which climbs up to Amiata's cold ...
... side . Jagged ruins of Faesulae's walls , Sutrium's squalid beggary , Bolsena tragedy - encompassed , some lonely monastery in the desolate hills fit place for contest with Satanic power , the wilderness which climbs up to Amiata's cold ...
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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.