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... Fathers on their Clas- sical reading . Two decades ago Wilson Ober Clough in his useful and wide- ranging anthology , Intellectual Origins of American National Thought . Pages from the Books Our Founding Fathers Read , 4 in- cluded a ...
... Fathers on their Clas- sical reading . Two decades ago Wilson Ober Clough in his useful and wide- ranging anthology , Intellectual Origins of American National Thought . Pages from the Books Our Founding Fathers Read , 4 in- cluded a ...
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... father's example , in good , the most obligatory law , and be fired with zeal to emulate his virtues . It is a shame , that painters should express the beauties of different crea- tures , and children not imitate their father's praise ...
... father's example , in good , the most obligatory law , and be fired with zeal to emulate his virtues . It is a shame , that painters should express the beauties of different crea- tures , and children not imitate their father's praise ...
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... Fathers . " Thus in the cult of antiquity that prevailed in America in the sec- ond half of the century , ancient history served as a repository of parallels , Classical quotations and instances instructive for present issues . The ...
... Fathers . " Thus in the cult of antiquity that prevailed in America in the sec- ond half of the century , ancient history served as a repository of parallels , Classical quotations and instances instructive for present issues . The ...
Contents
The Cult of Antiquity in America | 1 |
THESE GREAT MASTERS | 29 |
Florus | 35 |
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