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Page 288
... Gorgias and Lysias — had a profound formative influence upon the oratory of
Greece and particularly of Athens . But this influence did not make itself felt until
after the beginning of the Peloponnesian War , for Pericles , reputed to be the ...
... Gorgias and Lysias — had a profound formative influence upon the oratory of
Greece and particularly of Athens . But this influence did not make itself felt until
after the beginning of the Peloponnesian War , for Pericles , reputed to be the ...
Page 304
Nor did that influence end when the Tartar military power was broken , but
socially and mentally lay like a dead hand over Russia till Peter the Great's
sweeping reforms in the early eighteenth century . The result was the same as
the result of ...
Nor did that influence end when the Tartar military power was broken , but
socially and mentally lay like a dead hand over Russia till Peter the Great's
sweeping reforms in the early eighteenth century . The result was the same as
the result of ...
Page 309
For a long time past there had been a deliberate infiltration of German influence
into Russia . And here a curious point may be noted . In Russian upper - middle
and commercial classes practically the only foreign language known was
German ...
For a long time past there had been a deliberate infiltration of German influence
into Russia . And here a curious point may be noted . In Russian upper - middle
and commercial classes practically the only foreign language known was
German ...
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The 1951 House of Commons | 2 |
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