Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 11
... force long after their neighbours had begun to hire soldiers . But their military spirit declined with their singular institutions . In the second century before Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage high ...
... force long after their neighbours had begun to hire soldiers . But their military spirit declined with their singular institutions . In the second century before Christ , Greece contained only one nation of warriors , the savage high ...
Page 12
... force that class into a standing army . It is scarcely possible , that men can pass their lives in the service of one State , without feeling some interest in its greatness . Its victories are their victories . Its defeats are their ...
... force that class into a standing army . It is scarcely possible , that men can pass their lives in the service of one State , without feeling some interest in its greatness . Its victories are their victories . Its defeats are their ...
Page 40
... force of that argument which a reflecting mind finds in every beast , bird , insect , fish , leaf , flower and shell . The reasoning by which Socrates , in Xenophon's hearing , confuted the little atheist Aristodemus , is exactly the ...
... force of that argument which a reflecting mind finds in every beast , bird , insect , fish , leaf , flower and shell . The reasoning by which Socrates , in Xenophon's hearing , confuted the little atheist Aristodemus , is exactly the ...
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... force of the argument against the real presence . We are , therefore , unable to understand why what Sir Thomas More believed respecting transubstantia- tion may not be believed to the end of time by men equal in abilities and honesty ...
... force of the argument against the real presence . We are , therefore , unable to understand why what Sir Thomas More believed respecting transubstantia- tion may not be believed to the end of time by men equal in abilities and honesty ...
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... force of arms , but to a great reflux in public opinion . During the first half century after the commencement of the Reformation , the current of feeling , in the countries on this side of the Alps and of the Pyrenees , ran impetuously ...
... force of arms , but to a great reflux in public opinion . During the first half century after the commencement of the Reformation , the current of feeling , in the countries on this side of the Alps and of the Pyrenees , ran impetuously ...
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