Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... Roman virtue and the sublimity of Christian martyrdom . His writings are less a faithful portrait of any particular age or country , than an assemblage of all that is grand , and generous , and elevated in human nature . He drinks deep ...
... Roman virtue and the sublimity of Christian martyrdom . His writings are less a faithful portrait of any particular age or country , than an assemblage of all that is grand , and generous , and elevated in human nature . He drinks deep ...
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... Roman poets . The Alps themselves , " The palaces of nature , whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps , And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity , where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of ...
... Roman poets . The Alps themselves , " The palaces of nature , whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps , And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity , where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of ...
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... Roman edifice would have survived their invasion ; they would have blown up even the Pyramids in the search for hidden treasures . One year of war in our times will destroy more than a century of combats among the ancients . Everything ...
... Roman edifice would have survived their invasion ; they would have blown up even the Pyramids in the search for hidden treasures . One year of war in our times will destroy more than a century of combats among the ancients . Everything ...
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... Roman empire to the rise of civilisation in the Western world ; a field in which he goes over the ground trod by Gibbon , and demonstrates the unbounded benefits derived from religion in all the institutions of modern times . In this ...
... Roman empire to the rise of civilisation in the Western world ; a field in which he goes over the ground trod by Gibbon , and demonstrates the unbounded benefits derived from religion in all the institutions of modern times . In this ...
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... Roman poet . One striking instance will at once illustrate this . When Hector parts from Andromache at the Scæan Gate , and after he has taken his infant son from her arms , he prays to Jupiter that he may become so celebrated that the ...
... Roman poet . One striking instance will at once illustrate this . When Hector parts from Andromache at the Scæan Gate , and after he has taken his infant son from her arms , he prays to Jupiter that he may become so celebrated that the ...
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