The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, 9. köideJohn Clark Ridpath Globe Publishing Company, 1899 |
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... humanity owe to Carthage ? If there had been left to us of Rome nothing but the inscriptions on her tombs , we should have been able from them to reconstruct her civil and military or- ganization , her philosophy and her religion ...
... humanity owe to Carthage ? If there had been left to us of Rome nothing but the inscriptions on her tombs , we should have been able from them to reconstruct her civil and military or- ganization , her philosophy and her religion ...
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... human column , thus Ever in swoon wilt thou remain ? Thought , Freedom , Truth , quenched ominous , Whence then shall hope arise for us , Plunged in the darkness all again ? No ! She stirs ! There's a fire in her glance- ' Ware , oh ...
... human column , thus Ever in swoon wilt thou remain ? Thought , Freedom , Truth , quenched ominous , Whence then shall hope arise for us , Plunged in the darkness all again ? No ! She stirs ! There's a fire in her glance- ' Ware , oh ...
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... human being could dwell , and into which every human foot was for- bidden to enter . The parts of this barrier which have been covered with wortleberry - bushes , and with oaks , have been either not at all , or very little blown . oaks ...
... human being could dwell , and into which every human foot was for- bidden to enter . The parts of this barrier which have been covered with wortleberry - bushes , and with oaks , have been either not at all , or very little blown . oaks ...
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... human life — he would know of them all . He moved with alertness after them all . Reading with rapid movement , learning with wonderful facility , gathering the results of study as a permanent possession through the power of a retentive ...
... human life — he would know of them all . He moved with alertness after them all . Reading with rapid movement , learning with wonderful facility , gathering the results of study as a permanent possession through the power of a retentive ...
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... human heart , and in profound thought ; but he is , moreover , utterly unlike them in almost every respect - unlike them in his method of developing character , in his direction , in his versification ; nor should it be forgotten that ...
... human heart , and in profound thought ; but he is , moreover , utterly unlike them in almost every respect - unlike them in his method of developing character , in his direction , in his versification ; nor should it be forgotten that ...
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