Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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Page 12
... Rome . In the midst of these sufferings , a great internal change passed upon the empire . The corruption of death began to ferment into new forms of life . While the great body , as a whole , was torpid and passive , every separate ...
... Rome . In the midst of these sufferings , a great internal change passed upon the empire . The corruption of death began to ferment into new forms of life . While the great body , as a whole , was torpid and passive , every separate ...
Page 95
... Rome by the most success- ful proconsul . Nor were such wealthy spoils ever borne under arches of triumph , down the Sacred Way , and through the crowded Forum , to the threshold of Tarpeian Jove . The fame of those who subdued ...
... Rome by the most success- ful proconsul . Nor were such wealthy spoils ever borne under arches of triumph , down the Sacred Way , and through the crowded Forum , to the threshold of Tarpeian Jove . The fame of those who subdued ...
Page 97
... Rome , during the Sixteenth and Seenth Centuries . By LEOPOLD VON RANKE , Professor in the University Translated from the German , by SARAH AUSTIN . 3 vols . 8vo . London : 1840 . IT is hardly necessary for us to say that this is an ex ...
... Rome , during the Sixteenth and Seenth Centuries . By LEOPOLD VON RANKE , Professor in the University Translated from the German , by SARAH AUSTIN . 3 vols . 8vo . London : 1840 . IT is hardly necessary for us to say that this is an ex ...
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... Rome . We can- not , therefore , feel confident that the progress of knowledge will necessarily be fatal to a system which has , to say the least , stood its ground in spite of the immense progress made by the human race in knowledge ...
... Rome . We can- not , therefore , feel confident that the progress of knowledge will necessarily be fatal to a system which has , to say the least , stood its ground in spite of the immense progress made by the human race in knowledge ...
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... Rome was established in Western Chris- tendom , has the human intellect risen up against her yoke . Twice that Church remained completely victorious . Twice she came forth from the conflict bearing the marks of cruel wounds , but with ...
... Rome was established in Western Chris- tendom , has the human intellect risen up against her yoke . Twice that Church remained completely victorious . Twice she came forth from the conflict bearing the marks of cruel wounds , but with ...
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