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... individual genius , yet these last are much the most im- portant factors in the creative literature of any age . The genius of ancient Italy was , in point of imaginative suscep- tibility , very different from that of modern France ...
... individual genius , yet these last are much the most im- portant factors in the creative literature of any age . The genius of ancient Italy was , in point of imaginative suscep- tibility , very different from that of modern France ...
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... individual , the invisible world of faith appears very near the actual world of experience , seems sincerely to ... individual , a and also the custom of raising altars to some abstract quality in an individual , such as the ' Clemency ...
... individual , the invisible world of faith appears very near the actual world of experience , seems sincerely to ... individual , a and also the custom of raising altars to some abstract quality in an individual , such as the ' Clemency ...
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... individuals , such as Crassus , Hor- tensius , and the Luculli . One proof of the immense accu- mulation of money at that time is the large price which , as we learn from Cicero's letters , was paid for the houses of the leading men ...
... individuals , such as Crassus , Hor- tensius , and the Luculli . One proof of the immense accu- mulation of money at that time is the large price which , as we learn from Cicero's letters , was paid for the houses of the leading men ...
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... individuals and the petty passions of literary coteries , in which the most eminent poets and men of letters lived with one another . The only exception to the general state of good feeling of which there is any indication is an ...
... individuals and the petty passions of literary coteries , in which the most eminent poets and men of letters lived with one another . The only exception to the general state of good feeling of which there is any indication is an ...
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... individuals , the philosophical discernment of great political principles destined to act in the same way ' so long as the nature of man remains the same , ' and the deep tragic pathos which make , even at the present day , the record ...
... individuals , the philosophical discernment of great political principles destined to act in the same way ' so long as the nature of man remains the same , ' and the deep tragic pathos which make , even at the present day , the record ...
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