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Any intelligent man may now , by resolutely applying him- self for a few years to mathematics , learn more than the great Newton knew after half a century of study and medi- tation . But it is not thus with music , with painting ...
Any intelligent man may now , by resolutely applying him- self for a few years to mathematics , learn more than the great Newton knew after half a century of study and medi- tation . But it is not thus with music , with painting ...
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In the twelfth century it attained its full vigour , and , after a long and doubtful conflict , it triumph- ed over the abilities and courage of the Swabian Princes . The assistance of the ecclesiastical power had greatly contributed to ...
In the twelfth century it attained its full vigour , and , after a long and doubtful conflict , it triumph- ed over the abilities and courage of the Swabian Princes . The assistance of the ecclesiastical power had greatly contributed to ...
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Fortunately , John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the earlier part of the fourteenth century . The revenue of the republic amounted to three hundred thousand florins , a sum which ...
Fortunately , John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the earlier part of the fourteenth century . The revenue of the republic amounted to three hundred thousand florins , a sum which ...
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Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest work of imagina- tion which had appeared since the poems of Homer . The following generation produced , indeed , no second Dante ' ; but it ...
Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest work of imagina- tion which had appeared since the poems of Homer . The following generation produced , indeed , no second Dante ' ; but it ...
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In the second century , Greece con- tained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of Ætolia , who were at least ten generations behind their countrymen in civilization and intelligence . All the causes which produced these ...
In the second century , Greece con- tained only one nation of warriors , the savage highlanders of Ætolia , who were at least ten generations behind their countrymen in civilization and intelligence . All the causes which produced these ...
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