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... ancient republics are the study of our statesmen and orators . The dead languages in which their literature is buried consume the best years of our choicest youth . An acquaintance with their poetry , philosophy , archi- tecture , and ...
... ancient republics are the study of our statesmen and orators . The dead languages in which their literature is buried consume the best years of our choicest youth . An acquaintance with their poetry , philosophy , archi- tecture , and ...
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... ancients , and because intellectual education was carried at Athens to a perfection which has been seldom equalled . One of the first things that strikes the inquirer into the practical education of the Greeks is the commanding position ...
... ancients , and because intellectual education was carried at Athens to a perfection which has been seldom equalled . One of the first things that strikes the inquirer into the practical education of the Greeks is the commanding position ...
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... ancients was peculiar , and the estimation in which the art was held , may be seen in the dif- ferent senses in which the word was used , and in the promi- nence which was given to it in education . According to Plato , education ...
... ancients was peculiar , and the estimation in which the art was held , may be seen in the dif- ferent senses in which the word was used , and in the promi- nence which was given to it in education . According to Plato , education ...
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... ancient philosophers taught , that goodness and beauty , if not absolute- ly identical , are in their nature inseparable . " Whatever may have been the origin of this love of beauty in the Greek , their system of education was fitted to ...
... ancient philosophers taught , that goodness and beauty , if not absolute- ly identical , are in their nature inseparable . " Whatever may have been the origin of this love of beauty in the Greek , their system of education was fitted to ...
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... ancient discipline as old fashioned , vulgar , and contemptible , while the lover of the good old ways in reply institutes a comparison between the two . " Thus summoned I prepare myself to speak Of manners primitive , and that good ...
... ancient discipline as old fashioned , vulgar , and contemptible , while the lover of the good old ways in reply institutes a comparison between the two . " Thus summoned I prepare myself to speak Of manners primitive , and that good ...
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