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... example of its working is seen in the Peloponnesian War . Pericles thought , and I think Thucydides agreed with him , that the war would last but a few years , and would result in victory for Athens . Pericles's position would have been ...
... example of its working is seen in the Peloponnesian War . Pericles thought , and I think Thucydides agreed with him , that the war would last but a few years , and would result in victory for Athens . Pericles's position would have been ...
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... example . " Lessing in his Laocoön argues that while it is a breach of decorum to fix the fleeting movements of anguish in marble , poetry , whose words move in time , may fitly express them . Other critics are in- terested in the ...
... example . " Lessing in his Laocoön argues that while it is a breach of decorum to fix the fleeting movements of anguish in marble , poetry , whose words move in time , may fitly express them . Other critics are in- terested in the ...
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... example of enormous consequence ; and the central principles which this example embodies , prin- ciples of government based on conciliation and agree- ment , not upon force , were learnt from the statesmen who , through five centuries ...
... example of enormous consequence ; and the central principles which this example embodies , prin- ciples of government based on conciliation and agree- ment , not upon force , were learnt from the statesmen who , through five centuries ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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