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... Thucydides , Gibbon and Carlyle , with Homer , Dante , Shakespeare and Milton , with Machiavelli , Montaigne and Rabelais , with Plato , Bacon , Hume and Kant , as with the books which have been spe- cifically written on the subject ...
... Thucydides , Gibbon and Carlyle , with Homer , Dante , Shakespeare and Milton , with Machiavelli , Montaigne and Rabelais , with Plato , Bacon , Hume and Kant , as with the books which have been spe- cifically written on the subject ...
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... Thucydides ' Athens as it is to put Thucydides himself at the table beside Socrates watching the girl with the hoops . There is no use trying to make a composite picture out of Xenophon and Thucydides . The only result would be to lose ...
... Thucydides ' Athens as it is to put Thucydides himself at the table beside Socrates watching the girl with the hoops . There is no use trying to make a composite picture out of Xenophon and Thucydides . The only result would be to lose ...
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... Thucydides says : We are a free democracy , but we are obedient . We obey the laws , more especially those which protect the oppressed , and the unwritten laws whose transgression brings acknowledged shame . We do not allow absorption ...
... Thucydides says : We are a free democracy , but we are obedient . We obey the laws , more especially those which protect the oppressed , and the unwritten laws whose transgression brings acknowledged shame . We do not allow absorption ...
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Dylan Thomas Memories of Christmas | 1 |
Allan Seager The Joys of Sport at Oxford | 11 |
A J Liebling Poet and Pedagogue | 22 |
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