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... appear greater than either seems inclined to admit . If Thucydides had been questioned as to his debt to Herodotus , he might have said that he owed him much , for he had learned from him how not to write history . Of the men who ...
... appear greater than either seems inclined to admit . If Thucydides had been questioned as to his debt to Herodotus , he might have said that he owed him much , for he had learned from him how not to write history . Of the men who ...
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... what he thought was appropriate to the occasion . How is this practice of making people say what they might have said compatible with the repu- tation for veracity ? The situation will appear clearer if THUCYDIDES 47.
... what he thought was appropriate to the occasion . How is this practice of making people say what they might have said compatible with the repu- tation for veracity ? The situation will appear clearer if THUCYDIDES 47.
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... appear in a Galsworthy novel or play , or in Mr. H. G. Wells's last novel , where he always gets egg on his moustache , we cannot infer that Sophocles was so prejudiced a parti- san . There are too many sage precepts to the con- trary ...
... appear in a Galsworthy novel or play , or in Mr. H. G. Wells's last novel , where he always gets egg on his moustache , we cannot infer that Sophocles was so prejudiced a parti- san . There are too many sage precepts to the con- trary ...
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