Oracles on Man and GovernmentBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 298 Seiten |
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Seite 79
... Tacitus from dis- belief in the moral government of a degenerate world . Though he strives , like Tacitus , to take up his parable nec amore et sine odio , the disgust is ill concealed . There are passages where we almost hear the drone ...
... Tacitus from dis- belief in the moral government of a degenerate world . Though he strives , like Tacitus , to take up his parable nec amore et sine odio , the disgust is ill concealed . There are passages where we almost hear the drone ...
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... Tacitus belongs to a different class among great writers . He had , beyond almost any author of the front rank that has ever lived , the art of condensing his thought and driving it home to the mind of the reader with a flash . Beyond ...
... Tacitus belongs to a different class among great writers . He had , beyond almost any author of the front rank that has ever lived , the art of condensing his thought and driving it home to the mind of the reader with a flash . Beyond ...
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... Tacitus says of Mucianus , the wisest and most active politician of his time , ' That he had a certain art of setting forth to advantage everything he said or did . ' And it requires indeed some art , lest it become wearisome and ...
... Tacitus says of Mucianus , the wisest and most active politician of his time , ' That he had a certain art of setting forth to advantage everything he said or did . ' And it requires indeed some art , lest it become wearisome and ...
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A GREAT TEACHER | 1 |
II MAINE ON POPULAR GOVERNMENT | 75 |
LIBERALISM AND REACTION | 115 |
Urheberrecht | |
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