Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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... fall of Adam ; that the Roman flag and the Roman language stood ready to carry the new religion to a hundred millions of educated people . From these popular estimates there seems now to have been too much omitted . It would have been ...
... fall of Adam ; that the Roman flag and the Roman language stood ready to carry the new religion to a hundred millions of educated people . From these popular estimates there seems now to have been too much omitted . It would have been ...
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... fall into ruin was the reasoning power . The classic lands had created a race of logicians who can now be compared to the great mod- erns , such as Burke , Mill and Webster . Between Aristotle and Tacitus lay a great period of logical ...
... fall into ruin was the reasoning power . The classic lands had created a race of logicians who can now be compared to the great mod- erns , such as Burke , Mill and Webster . Between Aristotle and Tacitus lay a great period of logical ...
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... fall of the intellect was hastened and made more hopeless by the advent of a crazy Orientalism . All the better families fell in love with fakirs , hermits , wisemen , and fools from the far East . In earlier times the family of the ...
... fall of the intellect was hastened and made more hopeless by the advent of a crazy Orientalism . All the better families fell in love with fakirs , hermits , wisemen , and fools from the far East . In earlier times the family of the ...
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... fall in upon the center . The Roman armies were compelled to make their raids nearer home . Their rope began to be wound around their stake . The thunder- ing legions did not dare thunder far east , north or west . Their own heroism was ...
... fall in upon the center . The Roman armies were compelled to make their raids nearer home . Their rope began to be wound around their stake . The thunder- ing legions did not dare thunder far east , north or west . Their own heroism was ...
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... fall later in death . Julius Cæsar and Pompey won fame by their swift destruction of the pirates who had for generations been plundering on sea and shore . Of this kind of craft these two energetic leaders sunk thirteen hundred , but ...
... fall later in death . Julius Cæsar and Pompey won fame by their swift destruction of the pirates who had for generations been plundering on sea and shore . Of this kind of craft these two energetic leaders sunk thirteen hundred , but ...
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