The History of Rome, Volúmenes1-2Lea & Blanchard, 1844 |
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... Roman history left unvisited by this youthful spirit of freedom . It is undoubtedly to the pervading activity which prevailed during the latter part of that century , that we owe the first work which , while it discusses an abundance of ...
... Roman history left unvisited by this youthful spirit of freedom . It is undoubtedly to the pervading activity which prevailed during the latter part of that century , that we owe the first work which , while it discusses an abundance of ...
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... Roman authors , so far as their remains supply us with a representation of several of the most brilliant and memorable periods of republican and imperial Rome . If the whole of these works were extant , if we possessed a continuous ...
... Roman authors , so far as their remains supply us with a representation of several of the most brilliant and memorable periods of republican and imperial Rome . If the whole of these works were extant , if we possessed a continuous ...
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... Roman nation and state , which have been built over and masked , and about which the old writers preserved to us are often utterly mistaken ; to execute justice in awarding praise and blame , love and hatred , where party - spirit has ...
... Roman nation and state , which have been built over and masked , and about which the old writers preserved to us are often utterly mistaken ; to execute justice in awarding praise and blame , love and hatred , where party - spirit has ...
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... Roman house , a Roman ship , Roman agriculture and trade , Roman dress , or the interior of a household in ancient Rome , conceived the same notions which answer to those words in our own days , -this every body must feel : but the ...
... Roman house , a Roman ship , Roman agriculture and trade , Roman dress , or the interior of a household in ancient Rome , conceived the same notions which answer to those words in our own days , -this every body must feel : but the ...
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... Romans of the good times of the republic . They bear a great resem- blance in their virtues to the Arabs under the ... Roman conquests are consolidated into one mass , the history entirely loses the moral and poetical interest of the ...
... Romans of the good times of the republic . They bear a great resem- blance in their virtues to the Arabs under the ... Roman conquests are consolidated into one mass , the history entirely loses the moral and poetical interest of the ...
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