Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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Page 3
... period in our era cannot be marked out with any pre- cision . By some students of history it is said to reach from the fifth century to the fifteenth . By the law of sympathy and gradation the trembling that was so loud and heavy around ...
... period in our era cannot be marked out with any pre- cision . By some students of history it is said to reach from the fifth century to the fifteenth . By the law of sympathy and gradation the trembling that was so loud and heavy around ...
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... period . Cicero and Cæsar and hundreds of great men had been assassinated , and slowly but surely had come the sentiment of Tacitus that it was dangerous for a man to be honorable . The Judean Star was still only a poor Jew- ish candle ...
... period . Cicero and Cæsar and hundreds of great men had been assassinated , and slowly but surely had come the sentiment of Tacitus that it was dangerous for a man to be honorable . The Judean Star was still only a poor Jew- ish candle ...
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... period of logical excellence . The famous 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 ...
... period of logical excellence . The famous 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 ...
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... period when the mind that could utter the most nonsense was to be reckoned the most inspired . In our brief histories of Rome's calami- ties we are taught that the empire was de- stroyed by the Goths and Vandals . This is too vague a ...
... period when the mind that could utter the most nonsense was to be reckoned the most inspired . In our brief histories of Rome's calami- ties we are taught that the empire was de- stroyed by the Goths and Vandals . This is too vague a ...
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... period lay , but all through that long period this brainless thought lay wide and deep . It still made half ri- diculous Luther and Calvin , beclouded the chambers of legislation and justice , made science a form of black art and made ...
... period lay , but all through that long period this brainless thought lay wide and deep . It still made half ri- diculous Luther and Calvin , beclouded the chambers of legislation and justice , made science a form of black art and made ...
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