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... human prosperity never continues in one stay , I will make mention alike of both kinds . It will be observed that it is the impermanence of human institutions that constitutes one of the reasons for the History . Herodotus in one ...
... human prosperity never continues in one stay , I will make mention alike of both kinds . It will be observed that it is the impermanence of human institutions that constitutes one of the reasons for the History . Herodotus in one ...
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... human misery which Sophocles heard on the Aegean . " The great writer of tragedies had had all that the world can give , and yet in more than one passage of his works he insists on the emptiness of human life . Herodotus would probably ...
... human misery which Sophocles heard on the Aegean . " The great writer of tragedies had had all that the world can give , and yet in more than one passage of his works he insists on the emptiness of human life . Herodotus would probably ...
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... human misery . It is calamities like the century of war be- tween Rome and Carthage which are the outcome when statesmen aim at the supremacy of their own nation by the destruction of every other , and when they dare to make human ...
... human misery . It is calamities like the century of war be- tween Rome and Carthage which are the outcome when statesmen aim at the supremacy of their own nation by the destruction of every other , and when they dare to make human ...
Contents
Paul Shorey | 57 |
THE POETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ODYSSEY | 97 |
ANCIENT EMPIRES AND The Modern WORLD | 125 |
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