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... Empire . There we may behold the political immortality of one race , the literary immortality of another ; there we may learn how a language and a religion can reconstruct a nation ; we may trace the force and the weakness of a ...
... Empire . There we may behold the political immortality of one race , the literary immortality of another ; there we may learn how a language and a religion can reconstruct a nation ; we may trace the force and the weakness of a ...
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... empires . The two periods can never be understood unless they are studied in this way , side by side . Thucydides and Villani , Sismondi and Grote , should always lie open at the same moment . And close as is the analogy between the two ...
... empires . The two periods can never be understood unless they are studied in this way , side by side . Thucydides and Villani , Sismondi and Grote , should always lie open at the same moment . And close as is the analogy between the two ...
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... Empire of all the Russias . On the other hand , analogies which really exist are often passed by , merely because they lie beneath the surface . The essential likeness between two states of things is often dis- guised by some purely ...
... Empire of all the Russias . On the other hand , analogies which really exist are often passed by , merely because they lie beneath the surface . The essential likeness between two states of things is often dis- guised by some purely ...
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... empire of Italy and the world . In medieval Switzerland again there arose a freedom purer , if less brilliant , than that of medieval Italy ; but there town - autonomy was still more largely modified . It was modified by the relation ...
... empire of Italy and the world . In medieval Switzerland again there arose a freedom purer , if less brilliant , than that of medieval Italy ; but there town - autonomy was still more largely modified . It was modified by the relation ...
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... Empire inter- fered . Venice , in later years , may be deemed to have more in common with despotic than with ... empires . We are tempted to mock at political history on so small a scale ; we are tempted to despise the revolutions of ...
... Empire inter- fered . Venice , in later years , may be deemed to have more in common with despotic than with ... empires . We are tempted to mock at political history on so small a scale ; we are tempted to despise the revolutions of ...
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Page 313 - From the still glassy lake that sleeps Beneath Aricia's trees — Those trees in whose dim shadow The ghastly priest doth reign, The priest who slew the slayer, And shall himself be slain...
Page 207 - LECTURES ON ANCIENT HISTORY, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE TAKING OF ALEXANDRIA BY OCTAYIANUS, CONTAINING The History of the Asiatic Nations, the Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians, and Carthaginians, BY BG NIEBUHR.
Page 93 - Egypt which drowns the spirit in effeminate indifference ; rather they are like the <f>dp/j,a/cov e<rd\6v, the remedial specific, which, freshening the understanding by contact with the truth and strength of nature, should both improve its vigilance against deceit and danger, and increase its vigour and resolution for the discharge of duty.
Page 53 - What strikes one more than anything else throughout Mr. Gladstone's volumes is the intense earnestness, the loftiness of moral purpose, which breathes in every page. He has not taken up Homer as a plaything, nor even as a mere literary enjoyment. To him the study of the Prince of Poets is clearly a means by which himself and other men may be made wiser and better.
Page 73 - All this is evidently heartfelt, and it almost deserves the name of eloquence ; yet it is to us simply unintelligible. Mr. Gladstone, by way of reverence for certain writings, actually goes out of his way to disparage them. Why cannot...
Page 73 - ... such a degree, indeed, that the rank and quality of the religious frame may in general be tested, at least negatively, by the height of its relish for them. There is the whole music of the human heart, when touched by the hand of the Maker, in all its tones that whisper or that swell, for every hope and fear, for every joy and pang, for every form of strength and languor, of disquietude and rest.
Page 308 - We may correct and improve from the stores which have been opened since Gibbon's time ; we may write again large parts of his story from other and often truer and more wholesome points of view, but the work of Gibbon as a whole, as the encyclopaedic history of...
Page 73 - If, however, we ought to decline to try the Judaic code by its merely political merits, much more ought we to apply the same principle to the sublimity of the prophecies, and to the deep spiritual experiences of the Psalms. In the first, we have a voice speaking from God, with the marks that it is of God so visibly imprinted upon it, that the mind utterly refuses to place the prophetical books in the scale against any production of human genius. And all that is peculiar in our conception of Isaiah,...