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... means worth remembering . The particular event , looked at by itself , touched perhaps the interests only of an inconsiderable district , and it had no great direct influence over the particular events which followed it . The same ...
... means worth remembering . The particular event , looked at by itself , touched perhaps the interests only of an inconsiderable district , and it had no great direct influence over the particular events which followed it . The same ...
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... means to make up for his unavoidable absence from the actual scene of debate . The one , in short , belonged to a seeing and hearing , the other belongs to a reading public ; the one heard Periklês , Nikias , or Kleôn with his own ears ...
... means to make up for his unavoidable absence from the actual scene of debate . The one , in short , belonged to a seeing and hearing , the other belongs to a reading public ; the one heard Periklês , Nikias , or Kleôn with his own ears ...
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... means of expression , without being over - nice as to the comparative merits of the two methods . In the case both of ancient Greece and of medieval Italy , the nation which , at that particular period , stood far above all others in ...
... means of expression , without being over - nice as to the comparative merits of the two methods . In the case both of ancient Greece and of medieval Italy , the nation which , at that particular period , stood far above all others in ...
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... means simply increase of taxation and the occasional loss of a friend or kinsman . Even when a country is invaded , it can only be a very small part of a great kingdom on which the scourge directly lights . Very different was the ...
... means simply increase of taxation and the occasional loss of a friend or kinsman . Even when a country is invaded , it can only be a very small part of a great kingdom on which the scourge directly lights . Very different was the ...
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... means so unimportant as the narrow range of their legal powers might at first lead us to think . A vigorous prince , an Agêsilaos or a Francesco Foscari , might , during the course of a long reign , gain an influence over the counsels ...
... means so unimportant as the narrow range of their legal powers might at first lead us to think . A vigorous prince , an Agêsilaos or a Francesco Foscari , might , during the course of a long reign , gain an influence over the counsels ...
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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,...