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... history was derived from Shakespeare's historical plays , and it would not be too much to say that a very large proportion of educated men , in our own as well as in Marlborough's times , have owed much of their knowledge of classical ...
... history was derived from Shakespeare's historical plays , and it would not be too much to say that a very large proportion of educated men , in our own as well as in Marlborough's times , have owed much of their knowledge of classical ...
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... . All events , comic or tragic , important or common- place , are described with the same inflated monotony which was mistaken by them for the dignity of History . Yet their work is in many cases far more correct PREFACE . vii.
... . All events , comic or tragic , important or common- place , are described with the same inflated monotony which was mistaken by them for the dignity of History . Yet their work is in many cases far more correct PREFACE . vii.
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... history in which he was especially interested , and will therefore be found to bo more fully annotated than tho others . It has seemed to mo unnecessary to give information in the notes which can at the present day be obtained in a more ...
... history in which he was especially interested , and will therefore be found to bo more fully annotated than tho others . It has seemed to mo unnecessary to give information in the notes which can at the present day be obtained in a more ...
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... history . Thoy aro tho lives of the brothers Tiborius and Cains Sompronius Gracchus , of Caius Marius , Lucius Cornelius Sulla , Quintus Sertorius , Marcus Licinius Crassus , Choius Pompoius Magnus , Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger ...
... history . Thoy aro tho lives of the brothers Tiborius and Cains Sompronius Gracchus , of Caius Marius , Lucius Cornelius Sulla , Quintus Sertorius , Marcus Licinius Crassus , Choius Pompoius Magnus , Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger ...
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... History , which is lost , carried the narration down to tho quarrels of Octavianus and Marcus Antonius , which ended in the defeat of Antonius in the battle of Actium , B.C. 31 , and his death in Egypt , B.C. 30. The victory over ...
... History , which is lost , carried the narration down to tho quarrels of Octavianus and Marcus Antonius , which ended in the defeat of Antonius in the battle of Actium , B.C. 31 , and his death in Egypt , B.C. 30. The victory over ...
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