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... texts . Only on the Spartans among all other peoples of antiquity did Fortune or Nature seem to bestow a similar combination of gifts . Even the Spartan lacked somewhat of the Roman's pietas and gravitas , " his sense of duty and ...
... texts . Only on the Spartans among all other peoples of antiquity did Fortune or Nature seem to bestow a similar combination of gifts . Even the Spartan lacked somewhat of the Roman's pietas and gravitas , " his sense of duty and ...
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... Texts . The reason for reading texts is that you may draw knowledge from its source and study thought in the ipsissima verba of the thinker . Texts are to be read for their subject matter . Inter- leaved copies are useful for analysis ...
... Texts . The reason for reading texts is that you may draw knowledge from its source and study thought in the ipsissima verba of the thinker . Texts are to be read for their subject matter . Inter- leaved copies are useful for analysis ...
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... texts . Herodotus and Thucydides , Book I , should be finished at latest by end of your first Long after Mods .; the rest of Thucydides and Xenophon by the end of the Easter Vacation following - earlier if possible ; the Roman history texts ...
... texts . Herodotus and Thucydides , Book I , should be finished at latest by end of your first Long after Mods .; the rest of Thucydides and Xenophon by the end of the Easter Vacation following - earlier if possible ; the Roman history texts ...
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... texts . See e.g. if there is some prize essay subject , University or College , which attracts you . You need not take it up primarily for any other prize save that of the joy of digging " -and that is the best prize of all . Or again ...
... texts . See e.g. if there is some prize essay subject , University or College , which attracts you . You need not take it up primarily for any other prize save that of the joy of digging " -and that is the best prize of all . Or again ...
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... Texts ( Authors required in the School of Literę Humaniores ) APPIAN . Civil Wars , Book I. Edited with notes and map by J. L. Strachan - Davidson . Oxford , 1902. ( Trans . by E. F. M. Benecke . Oxford , 1894. ) CICERO'S LETTERS ...
... Texts ( Authors required in the School of Literę Humaniores ) APPIAN . Civil Wars , Book I. Edited with notes and map by J. L. Strachan - Davidson . Oxford , 1902. ( Trans . by E. F. M. Benecke . Oxford , 1894. ) CICERO'S LETTERS ...
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