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... Macedon , without intermission worried each other for above two hundred years ; until at last a strong power , arising in the west , rushed in upon them and silenced their tumults , by involving all the contending parties in the same ...
... Macedon , without intermission worried each other for above two hundred years ; until at last a strong power , arising in the west , rushed in upon them and silenced their tumults , by involving all the contending parties in the same ...
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... the reading , as the ruin of the state of Macedon , and the distress of its unhappy prince . Such a catas- trophe touches us in history as much as the destruction destruction of Troy does in fable . Our delight , 142 ON THE SUBLIME.
... the reading , as the ruin of the state of Macedon , and the distress of its unhappy prince . Such a catas- trophe touches us in history as much as the destruction destruction of Troy does in fable . Our delight , 142 ON THE SUBLIME.
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