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... 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 political and military genius which have made the his ...
... 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 political and military genius which have made the his ...
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... story of Rome's early growth . For Tradition , mother of History , always loves living personalities more than the dead stuff of geographical or economic statistics , or the gossamer web of probabilities and tendencies . The sequence of ...
... story of Rome's early growth . For Tradition , mother of History , always loves living personalities more than the dead stuff of geographical or economic statistics , or the gossamer web of probabilities and tendencies . The sequence of ...
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... story . The tale of the Romans ' advance east and south of their city is that of a lowland warrior folk pene- trating up into the hostile girdle of mountains . The shapes and beauty of these hill masses fascinate the wanderer to - day ...
... story . The tale of the Romans ' advance east and south of their city is that of a lowland warrior folk pene- trating up into the hostile girdle of mountains . The shapes and beauty of these hill masses fascinate the wanderer to - day ...
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... story we forget smiling Tuscany of the Middle Ages , and many- jewelled Florence on Arno - side . Jagged ruins of Faesulae's walls , Sutrium's squalid beggary , Bolsena tragedy - encompassed , some lonely monastery in the desolate hills ...
... story we forget smiling Tuscany of the Middle Ages , and many- jewelled Florence on Arno - side . Jagged ruins of Faesulae's walls , Sutrium's squalid beggary , Bolsena tragedy - encompassed , some lonely monastery in the desolate hills ...
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... story is Polybius , not Livy . In it is also contained that wonderful chapter of human sorrow , the tale of dying Greece . Its second section , 146-31 B.C. , is common to both the First and the Second Period " of Roman History . This is ...
... story is Polybius , not Livy . In it is also contained that wonderful chapter of human sorrow , the tale of dying Greece . Its second section , 146-31 B.C. , is common to both the First and the Second Period " of Roman History . This is ...
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