Introductory Lectures on Modern History, Delivered in Lent Term, MDCCCXLII.: With the Inaugural Lecture Delivered in December, MDCCCXLI. |
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... line which separates them is purely arbitrary and we might equally well fix the limit of ancient history at the fall of the Babylonian monarchy , and embrace the whole fortunes of Greece and Rome within 4 * INAUGURAL LECTURE 41.
... line which separates them is purely arbitrary and we might equally well fix the limit of ancient history at the fall of the Babylonian monarchy , and embrace the whole fortunes of Greece and Rome within 4 * INAUGURAL LECTURE 41.
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... Rome within what we choose to call modern ; or , on the other hand , we might carry on ancient history to the close of the fifteenth century , and place the beginning of modern history at that memorable period which witnessed the ...
... Rome within what we choose to call modern ; or , on the other hand , we might carry on ancient history to the close of the fifteenth century , and place the beginning of modern history at that memorable period which witnessed the ...
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... Rome is to us ? Such a difference does characterize what we now call modern history , and must continue to characterize it forever . Modern history exhibits a fuller development of the human race , a richer combination of its most ...
... Rome is to us ? Such a difference does characterize what we now call modern history , and must continue to characterize it forever . Modern history exhibits a fuller development of the human race , a richer combination of its most ...
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... Rome . ( 10 ) What was not there , was simply the German race , and the peculiar qualities which characterize it . This one addition was of such power , that it changed the character of the whole mass : the peculiar stamp of the middle ...
... Rome . ( 10 ) What was not there , was simply the German race , and the peculiar qualities which characterize it . This one addition was of such power , that it changed the character of the whole mass : the peculiar stamp of the middle ...
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... Rome , taught by Greece and improving upon her teacher , has been the source of law and government and social civilization ; and what neither Greece nor Rome could furnish , the per- fection of moral and spiritual truth , has been given ...
... Rome , taught by Greece and improving upon her teacher , has been the source of law and government and social civilization ; and what neither Greece nor Rome could furnish , the per- fection of moral and spiritual truth , has been given ...
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