Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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Page 6
... mental realm which had been powerful and beautiful from Homer to Tacitus had passed beneath the surface . A spiritual Atlantis had disappeared . It used to be taught us in college , and afterward from the various pulpits , that ...
... mental realm which had been powerful and beautiful from Homer to Tacitus had passed beneath the surface . A spiritual Atlantis had disappeared . It used to be taught us in college , and afterward from the various pulpits , that ...
Page 10
... mental faculty to 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 ...
... mental faculty to 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 ...
Page 11
... mental force . Both the Plinies and Sallust and Horace were models of the same style . When Rome fell not only did agriculture fail and Virgil's fields grow up in blackberry bushes , but reason fell and men who would have been logicians ...
... mental force . Both the Plinies and Sallust and Horace were models of the same style . When Rome fell not only did agriculture fail and Virgil's fields grow up in blackberry bushes , but reason fell and men who would have been logicians ...
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... mental and spir- itual decline , he inflamed not only all the political tricksters who remained , but he subjected all the religious and philosophic babblers to a new inflation . After Con- stantine came chaos . Among the early acts of ...
... mental and spir- itual decline , he inflamed not only all the political tricksters who remained , but he subjected all the religious and philosophic babblers to a new inflation . After Con- stantine came chaos . Among the early acts of ...
Page 28
... mental infirm- ity - pages full of marvels and empty of reason and of application to man's life . Some Druids met some Christians that they might determine which party held the better religion . In our age such a dispute would involve a ...
... mental infirm- ity - pages full of marvels and empty of reason and of application to man's life . Some Druids met some Christians that they might determine which party held the better religion . In our age such a dispute would involve a ...
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