The Quarterly Review, Volume 226John Murray, 1916 |
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Page 19
... less insistent in pre - Achæan days ; and the Hellespontine regions might well have attracted the ambitions of brave men before Agamemnon . In the second place , the conquest of Troy , apart from its purpose to open up free ...
... less insistent in pre - Achæan days ; and the Hellespontine regions might well have attracted the ambitions of brave men before Agamemnon . In the second place , the conquest of Troy , apart from its purpose to open up free ...
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... less , there is some foundation for this charge of want of sympathy . I could mention many instances within my own experience where an inconsiderate or thoughtless act , or the use of harsh and tactless language , on the part of ...
... less , there is some foundation for this charge of want of sympathy . I could mention many instances within my own experience where an inconsiderate or thoughtless act , or the use of harsh and tactless language , on the part of ...
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... greater extent than at present may be a matter of opinion , but it is quite certain that the further this process is carried the less interesting will Eastern affairs become . CROMER . Art . 3. - THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEIUS . EAST AND WEST ...
... greater extent than at present may be a matter of opinion , but it is quite certain that the further this process is carried the less interesting will Eastern affairs become . CROMER . Art . 3. - THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEIUS . EAST AND WEST ...
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later books , on the scale , may be , of a word or less to a chapter , the ' Commentaries ' of Cæsar on the Civil War constitute the sole continuous contemporary narrative of the last days of the Roman Commonwealth . Cæsar being what he ...
later books , on the scale , may be , of a word or less to a chapter , the ' Commentaries ' of Cæsar on the Civil War constitute the sole continuous contemporary narrative of the last days of the Roman Commonwealth . Cæsar being what he ...
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manner in which the picture was drawn , he was not less exacting in his choice of the matter to be represented ; and this because neither matter nor manner , except at their most perfect , could fitly cooperate with the other . As fine ...
manner in which the picture was drawn , he was not less exacting in his choice of the matter to be represented ; and this because neither matter nor manner , except at their most perfect , could fitly cooperate with the other . As fine ...
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