The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Latest Edition. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 11. köideDay Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith Werner, 1902 |
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... Athens or Rome ? What are the proper limits of state interference ? —is not the same question as What are the functions of the state in , France or England ? And yet the same answer may often serve for both sets of questions . Ideal ...
... Athens or Rome ? What are the proper limits of state interference ? —is not the same question as What are the functions of the state in , France or England ? And yet the same answer may often serve for both sets of questions . Ideal ...
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... Athens was a liberal educa- tion , such as it never can be made under any representative system . The Government of Rome . - During the whole period of freedom the government of Rome was , in theory at least , municipal self ...
... Athens was a liberal educa- tion , such as it never can be made under any representative system . The Government of Rome . - During the whole period of freedom the government of Rome was , in theory at least , municipal self ...
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... Athens only two Charites were known . Rites of peculiar antique character belong to the worship of the Charites : in Orchomenus nightly dances took place in their honour ( compare the legend of Eteocles's daughters , who obviously are ...
... Athens only two Charites were known . Rites of peculiar antique character belong to the worship of the Charites : in Orchomenus nightly dances took place in their honour ( compare the legend of Eteocles's daughters , who obviously are ...
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... Athens . Greece has few rivers , and these small , rapid , and , as a rule , turbid , as they could not help being in a country where they rise in high mountains and have no space to grow in before they reach the sea . They are either ...
... Athens . Greece has few rivers , and these small , rapid , and , as a rule , turbid , as they could not help being in a country where they rise in high mountains and have no space to grow in before they reach the sea . They are either ...
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... Athens , and pub- lished in his Beiträge zur physikalischen Geographie von Griechen land ( 1864-70 ) , there were in 1859 only twenty - five days on which enough rain fell at Athens to be measured by the rain gauge . The mean annual ...
... Athens , and pub- lished in his Beiträge zur physikalischen Geographie von Griechen land ( 1864-70 ) , there were in 1859 only twenty - five days on which enough rain fell at Athens to be measured by the rain gauge . The mean annual ...
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