Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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... Greek statesmen began to complain that their army was composed of hired soldiers ; that patriotism was a languid sen ... Greek tongue the speech of Demosthenes for a crown . Under the Latin flag , the Greek decline was somewhat arrested ...
... Greek statesmen began to complain that their army was composed of hired soldiers ; that patriotism was a languid sen ... Greek tongue the speech of Demosthenes for a crown . Under the Latin flag , the Greek decline was somewhat arrested ...
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... Greek . They were closed one by one for want of students and want of sympathy ; and in the sixth century the last Athenian school - house closed its doors . Tacitus , the last great Latin writer and thinker , uttered at the end of the ...
... Greek . They were closed one by one for want of students and want of sympathy ; and in the sixth century the last Athenian school - house closed its doors . Tacitus , the last great Latin writer and thinker , uttered at the end of the ...
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... Greek tongue his head was cut off by the men who spoke Latin . To add to the embarrassment of the new religion the existing thinkers and writers had become almost wholly transcendental and abstract . There had recently come a new charm ...
... Greek tongue his head was cut off by the men who spoke Latin . To add to the embarrassment of the new religion the existing thinkers and writers had become almost wholly transcendental and abstract . There had recently come a new charm ...
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... Greek orator in his greatest oration spoke about four hours without using a single line of poetry or a single phrase from the storehouse of fancy . In the speeches of Demosthenes , no flower bloomed , no bird fluttered with ΙΟ OLD ...
... Greek orator in his greatest oration spoke about four hours without using a single line of poetry or a single phrase from the storehouse of fancy . In the speeches of Demosthenes , no flower bloomed , no bird fluttered with ΙΟ OLD ...
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... army with hired soldiers of any tribe and color , Philip of Macedon was turning wild men into heroes . Demosthenes delivered his ora- tions to traitors and Greek fops . Philip was meanwhile THE SUBMERGED CENTURIES . 21.
... army with hired soldiers of any tribe and color , Philip of Macedon was turning wild men into heroes . Demosthenes delivered his ora- tions to traitors and Greek fops . Philip was meanwhile THE SUBMERGED CENTURIES . 21.
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