Old Pictures of Life, Volumen1Stone and Kimball, 1894 - 191 páginas |
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... Rome : Socrates , Cicero , Demosthenes , Pliny and others . From his familiarity with classical litera- ture , these papers are most graphic and admirable pictures of these antique heroes , bringing them before us from the mists of time ...
... Rome : Socrates , Cicero , Demosthenes , Pliny and others . From his familiarity with classical litera- ture , these papers are most graphic and admirable pictures of these antique heroes , bringing them before us from the mists of time ...
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... Rome which had a Virgil possessed also a Tacitus . The fondness of the classics for written truth of all kinds makes those races nearer to us than are the Christians of the fifteenth century . We know more about the expe- dition of ...
... Rome which had a Virgil possessed also a Tacitus . The fondness of the classics for written truth of all kinds makes those races nearer to us than are the Christians of the fifteenth century . We know more about the expe- dition of ...
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... ; " but he came too late . Philip had prepared the way for Alexander the Great , and Alexander in turn made the Greek world ready for bondage to Rome . Demos- thenes came to Greece when she was dy- ing . 44 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
... ; " but he came too late . Philip had prepared the way for Alexander the Great , and Alexander in turn made the Greek world ready for bondage to Rome . Demos- thenes came to Greece when she was dy- ing . 44 OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
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... Rome con- tained a population of about two millions ; the empire one hundred and twenty mil- lions . As the city was only thirteen miles in circumference the houses must have been remarkably full of occupants . One - half of the ...
... Rome con- tained a population of about two millions ; the empire one hundred and twenty mil- lions . As the city was only thirteen miles in circumference the houses must have been remarkably full of occupants . One - half of the ...
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... Rome and its vicinity has been set aside as slaves , another large number must still be subtracted - the low artisans - before we can find that great middle class or upper class which may stand as represented by this intelligent man ...
... Rome and its vicinity has been set aside as slaves , another large number must still be subtracted - the low artisans - before we can find that great middle class or upper class which may stand as represented by this intelligent man ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æneas Æschines Æsop Antigone Athenian Athens Augustus Beatrice beauty become began Cæsar centuries Christian Church Cicero classic confessed Cordelia crown Dante Dante's David Swing delightful Demosthenes Dido divine drama dramatist dream eloquence eternal exalted father friends girl Greece Greek Guelphs and Ghibellines happy heart Heaven Hesiod Homer Horace human hundred Iliad intellectual Julius Cæsar King King Lear land language Latin literary literature living look Macedon Mæcenas mind modern moral mother ness never noble oration palace passed Penelope period persons Phædo Philip philosophy picture Plato poem poet poetic poetry political possessed race reached rich Roman Rome Sappho scene scholars sentiment Shakespeare Socrates song soul Sparta speech statesman story student style Telemachus thought tion truth Ulysses utter verses Virgil wisdom woman wonderful words worship write Xenophon young youth καὶ τὴν