The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1John Murray, 1914 |
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... Tacitus , and a ragged Procopius of the beginning of the last century . The cheap acquisition of so much knowledge confirmed my dislike to the study of languages ; and I argued with Mrs. Porten , that , were I master of Greek and Latin ...
... Tacitus , and a ragged Procopius of the beginning of the last century . The cheap acquisition of so much knowledge confirmed my dislike to the study of languages ; and I argued with Mrs. Porten , that , were I master of Greek and Latin ...
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... Tacitus . & c . , and studied to imbibe the sense and spirit most congenial to my own . I never suffered a difficult or corrupt passage to escape , till I had viewed it in every light of which it was susceptible : though often ...
... Tacitus . & c . , and studied to imbibe the sense and spirit most congenial to my own . I never suffered a difficult or corrupt passage to escape , till I had viewed it in every light of which it was susceptible : though often ...
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... Tacitus . Yet in my residence at Lausanne I had laid a solid foundation , which enabled me , in a more propitious season , to prosecute the study of Grecian literature . From a blind idea of the usefulness of such abstract science , my ...
... Tacitus . Yet in my residence at Lausanne I had laid a solid foundation , which enabled me , in a more propitious season , to prosecute the study of Grecian literature . From a blind idea of the usefulness of such abstract science , my ...
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... Tacitus , Ovid , & c . , afforded a fair prospect , which I seldom neglected . I persevered in the useful method of abstracts and observations ; and a single example may suffice , of a note which had almost swelled into a work . The ...
... Tacitus , Ovid , & c . , afforded a fair prospect , which I seldom neglected . I persevered in the useful method of abstracts and observations ; and a single example may suffice , of a note which had almost swelled into a work . The ...
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... Tacitus , the younger Pliny , and Juvenal , were my old and familiar companions . I insen- sibly plunged into the ocean of the Augustan history ; and in the descending series I investigated , with my pen almost always in my hand , the ...
... Tacitus , the younger Pliny , and Juvenal , were my old and familiar companions . I insen- sibly plunged into the ocean of the Augustan history ; and in the descending series I investigated , with my pen almost always in my hand , the ...
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