Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousCarey and Hart, 1844 - 707 páginas |
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... advance together . Both attained their meri- dian in the age of Lorenzo the Magnificent . We cannot refrain from quoting the splendid passage , in which the Tuscan Thucydides de 1 5 d до of ร ic ne of U- MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... advance together . Both attained their meri- dian in the age of Lorenzo the Magnificent . We cannot refrain from quoting the splendid passage , in which the Tuscan Thucydides de 1 5 d до of ร ic ne of U- MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... and every distinction which they enjoyed . To be butchered on the smoking ruins of their city , to be dragged in chains to * Thucydides , ii . 62 a slave - market , to see one child torn 32 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... and every distinction which they enjoyed . To be butchered on the smoking ruins of their city , to be dragged in chains to * Thucydides , ii . 62 a slave - market , to see one child torn 32 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... Thucydides differs from that of Herodotus as a portrait differs from the re- presentation of an imaginary scene ; as the Burke or Fox of Reynolds differs from his Ugolino or his Beaufort . In the former case , the archetype is given ...
... Thucydides differs from that of Herodotus as a portrait differs from the re- presentation of an imaginary scene ; as the Burke or Fox of Reynolds differs from his Ugolino or his Beaufort . In the former case , the archetype is given ...
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... Thucydides borrowed from Herodotus the practice of putting speeches of his own into the mouths of his characters . In Herodotus this usage is scarcely censurable . It is of a piece with his whole manner . But it is al- together ...
... Thucydides borrowed from Herodotus the practice of putting speeches of his own into the mouths of his characters . In Herodotus this usage is scarcely censurable . It is of a piece with his whole manner . But it is al- together ...
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... Thucydides is deficient . The defi- ciency , indeed , is not discreditable to him . It was the inevitable effect of circumstances . It was in the nature of things necessary that , in some part of its progress through political science ...
... Thucydides is deficient . The defi- ciency , indeed , is not discreditable to him . It was the inevitable effect of circumstances . It was in the nature of things necessary that , in some part of its progress through political science ...
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