Historical Essays, Volume 2Macmillan, 1873 - 339 pages |
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Page 19
... Persian Kings . It is easy to answer that the war of Guelf and Ghibelin was not mere resistance to foreign invasion ; that it was an internal conflict in Italy itself ; that , though the Imperial claims were backed by German armies ...
... Persian Kings . It is easy to answer that the war of Guelf and Ghibelin was not mere resistance to foreign invasion ; that it was an internal conflict in Italy itself ; that , though the Imperial claims were backed by German armies ...
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... Persian was simply extending his empire , the German was striving to win back rights which his predecessors had held , and of which he deemed himself to be unjustly deprived . The old Imperial ideas never lost their general hold upon ...
... Persian was simply extending his empire , the German was striving to win back rights which his predecessors had held , and of which he deemed himself to be unjustly deprived . The old Imperial ideas never lost their general hold upon ...
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... Persia and to the almost nominal royalty of Lacedæmon ; but it always implies that kingship is the recognized government of the country . The Túpavvos , on the other hand , is the ruler who obtains kingly power in a republic , and whose ...
... Persia and to the almost nominal royalty of Lacedæmon ; but it always implies that kingship is the recognized government of the country . The Túpavvos , on the other hand , is the ruler who obtains kingly power in a republic , and whose ...
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... Persia . His arguments seem to be , that the names " EXλo and " EXAŋves come near to that of the Eelleats in modern Persia ; that , on the other hand , the name of Fars or Persia is met with again in the hero Perseus and the goddess ...
... Persia . His arguments seem to be , that the names " EXλo and " EXAŋves come near to that of the Eelleats in modern Persia ; that , on the other hand , the name of Fars or Persia is met with again in the hero Perseus and the goddess ...
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... Persians are kindred ; so are Greeks and Hindoos , Greeks and Teutons , Greeks and Slaves , Greeks and Celts . But Mr. Gladstone's special Helleno - Persian brotherhood seems to us to rest upon no good ground whatever . It is just the ...
... Persians are kindred ; so are Greeks and Hindoos , Greeks and Teutons , Greeks and Slaves , Greeks and Celts . But Mr. Gladstone's special Helleno - Persian brotherhood seems to us to rest upon no good ground whatever . It is just the ...
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