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Most histories are written as justifications for the actions of powerful men and bodies quite as much as explanations of the cause of events , even if the bodies justified have a life measured by centuries . The peculiar position held ...
Most histories are written as justifications for the actions of powerful men and bodies quite as much as explanations of the cause of events , even if the bodies justified have a life measured by centuries . The peculiar position held ...
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In other words , the ancient Athenian might readily be at the same time , poet , politician , merchant and soldier , and his importance and position in society did not depend , at least to the same extent as it does in England to - day ...
In other words , the ancient Athenian might readily be at the same time , poet , politician , merchant and soldier , and his importance and position in society did not depend , at least to the same extent as it does in England to - day ...
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... and although it will be a long day before the Stage can even distantly approach the position it occupied to the Elizabethans — when it was indeed a mirror to nature ; an instrument of poetry and exalted patriotism , as well as the ...
... and although it will be a long day before the Stage can even distantly approach the position it occupied to the Elizabethans — when it was indeed a mirror to nature ; an instrument of poetry and exalted patriotism , as well as the ...
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Yet even in that confused and desperate crisis , such was the energy latent in the individual Englishman , such were the advantages of the island position to the Mistress of the Seas , such was the power in war time of the new ...
Yet even in that confused and desperate crisis , such was the energy latent in the individual Englishman , such were the advantages of the island position to the Mistress of the Seas , such was the power in war time of the new ...
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And the strength of his position will arise from this circumstance only , that he owns the land at the centre of the town . No movement or exchange of commodities from one district to another is possible , or at least commercially ...
And the strength of his position will arise from this circumstance only , that he owns the land at the centre of the town . No movement or exchange of commodities from one district to another is possible , or at least commercially ...
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