Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... hundred thousand florins ; a sum which , allowing for the depreciation of the precious metals , was at least equivalent to six hundred thousand pounds sterling ; a larger sum than England and Ireland , two centuries ago , yielded ...
... hundred thousand florins ; a sum which , allowing for the depreciation of the precious metals , was at least equivalent to six hundred thousand pounds sterling ; a larger sum than England and Ireland , two centuries ago , yielded ...
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... history of Italy . Five hundred years before the Christian era , the citizens of the republics round the Ęgean Sea formed perhaps the finest militia that ever existed . As wealth and refinement advanced , the system ΙΟ Macaulay's Essays.
... history of Italy . Five hundred years before the Christian era , the citizens of the republics round the Ęgean Sea formed perhaps the finest militia that ever existed . As wealth and refinement advanced , the system ΙΟ Macaulay's Essays.
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... , a century ago , lived by taking blackmail from his neighbours , committed the same crime for which Wild was accompanied to Tyburn by the huzzas of two hundred thousand people . But there can be no doubt Machiavelli 15.
... , a century ago , lived by taking blackmail from his neighbours , committed the same crime for which Wild was accompanied to Tyburn by the huzzas of two hundred thousand people . But there can be no doubt Machiavelli 15.
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... hundred pair of gladiators . Yet we should greatly wrong such a Roman if we supposed that his disposition was as cruel as that of Mrs. Brownrigg . In our own country , a woman forfeits her place in society by what , in a man , is too ...
... hundred pair of gladiators . Yet we should greatly wrong such a Roman if we supposed that his disposition was as cruel as that of Mrs. Brownrigg . In our own country , a woman forfeits her place in society by what , in a man , is too ...
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... hundred nations were melted down , and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Platea . Yet they continued to employ the same language , and to cant about the duty of sacrificing everything to a country ...
... hundred nations were melted down , and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Platea . Yet they continued to employ the same language , and to cant about the duty of sacrificing everything to a country ...
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