Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... century . The revenue of the republic amounted to three hundred thousand florins , a sum which , allowing for the ... centuries ago , yielded annually to Elizabeth - a larger sum than , ac- cording to any computation which we have seen ...
... century . The revenue of the republic amounted to three hundred thousand florins , a sum which , allowing for the ... centuries ago , yielded annually to Elizabeth - a larger sum than , ac- cording to any computation which we have seen ...
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... 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 was eminently ...
... 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 was eminently ...
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... 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 effects among ...
... 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 effects among ...
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... centuries in most parts of Europe . That foot soldiers could withstand the charge of heavy cavalry was thought utterly impossible , till , towards the close of the fifteenth century , the rude mountaineers of Switzerland dissolved the ...
... centuries in most parts of Europe . That foot soldiers could withstand the charge of heavy cavalry was thought utterly impossible , till , towards the close of the fifteenth century , the rude mountaineers of Switzerland dissolved the ...
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... centuries . Mighty armies fight from sunrise to sunset . A great victory is won . Thousands of prisoners are taken ; and hardly a life is lost ! A pitched battle scems to have been really less dangerous than an ordinary civil tumult ...
... centuries . Mighty armies fight from sunrise to sunset . A great victory is won . Thousands of prisoners are taken ; and hardly a life is lost ! A pitched battle scems to have been really less dangerous than an ordinary civil tumult ...
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