The Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1864 |
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... accounted the most politic historiographer that ever writ . The reason whereof I take to be this : he filleth his narrations with that choice of matter and ordereth - them with that judgment , and with such perspicuity and vi PREFACE .
... accounted the most politic historiographer that ever writ . The reason whereof I take to be this : he filleth his narrations with that choice of matter and ordereth - them with that judgment , and with such perspicuity and vi PREFACE .
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... reasons which Thucydides had for putting his political reflections in the mouths of the chief actors , he wished to avoid saying himself what it was appropriate for others to say . I have seen it remarked somewhere , I know not where ...
... reasons which Thucydides had for putting his political reflections in the mouths of the chief actors , he wished to avoid saying himself what it was appropriate for others to say . I have seen it remarked somewhere , I know not where ...
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... reason why the Romans fixed themselves in Spain sooner than in France - The connexion between the Romans and Massilia - The origin of Massilia and the constitution of this Phocaean colony - Pytheas and his voyages - The settlements of ...
... reason why the Romans fixed themselves in Spain sooner than in France - The connexion between the Romans and Massilia - The origin of Massilia and the constitution of this Phocaean colony - Pytheas and his voyages - The settlements of ...
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... reason could be of no use . The cavalry had small pegs fastened to the end of their reins , and they used to fix these pegs in the ground and train their horses to stand by them till the riders returned and took them up . The Celtiberi ...
... reason could be of no use . The cavalry had small pegs fastened to the end of their reins , and they used to fix these pegs in the ground and train their horses to stand by them till the riders returned and took them up . The Celtiberi ...
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... reason can always find one . Lucullus said that he came to aid the Carpetani , who were wronged by the Vaccaei . The Carpetani were between the Guadiana and the Tagus , on the great table lands of Spain . Their chief city Toletum ...
... reason can always find one . Lucullus said that he came to aid the Carpetani , who were wronged by the Vaccaei . The Carpetani were between the Guadiana and the Tagus , on the great table lands of Spain . Their chief city Toletum ...
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