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... expression on the part of the author . It is the power which baffles all control and calculation . An example of its working is seen in the Peloponnesian War . Pericles thought , and I think Thucydides agreed with him , that the war ...
... expression on the part of the author . It is the power which baffles all control and calculation . An example of its working is seen in the Peloponnesian War . Pericles thought , and I think Thucydides agreed with him , that the war ...
Page 53
... expression like the one in describ- ing the sufferings of the Greeks at Syracuse as too deep for tears " ; yet he shows unmistakably that clearness of insight and reticence are not incompatible with depth of feeling . Possibly this ...
... expression like the one in describ- ing the sufferings of the Greeks at Syracuse as too deep for tears " ; yet he shows unmistakably that clearness of insight and reticence are not incompatible with depth of feeling . Possibly this ...
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... expression , if any expression at all , to some of its greatest aspects — its intense humanity ; its lofty conception of Deity ; its deeply felt protest against a superficial view of the position of women in human life ; and its not ...
... expression , if any expression at all , to some of its greatest aspects — its intense humanity ; its lofty conception of Deity ; its deeply felt protest against a superficial view of the position of women in human life ; and its not ...
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