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... reason of this is obvious . Among all uncivilized nations , physical strength is of much greater importance than in a more advanced state of society . With them martial prowess is the highest virtue . Deeds of arms - of arms wielded by ...
... reason of this is obvious . Among all uncivilized nations , physical strength is of much greater importance than in a more advanced state of society . With them martial prowess is the highest virtue . Deeds of arms - of arms wielded by ...
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... reason , ) to regard other nations when compared with themselves , as barbarians , and the languages of such nations , if learned at all , were learned not as a means of education , but for practical purposes of life . Nor were the ...
... reason , ) to regard other nations when compared with themselves , as barbarians , and the languages of such nations , if learned at all , were learned not as a means of education , but for practical purposes of life . Nor were the ...
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... reason why music was so much cultivated was that eloquence is dependent on language , and language with the Greeks had important relations to music . And if in oratory music was supposed to be useful , in poetry it was regarded as ...
... reason why music was so much cultivated was that eloquence is dependent on language , and language with the Greeks had important relations to music . And if in oratory music was supposed to be useful , in poetry it was regarded as ...
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... reason was not indeed that they had no religion , but that their religion was corrupt . It is a mistake to suppose that the religions of Greece and of early Rome were the same . For , while the former , aiming at the imagination and not ...
... reason was not indeed that they had no religion , but that their religion was corrupt . It is a mistake to suppose that the religions of Greece and of early Rome were the same . For , while the former , aiming at the imagination and not ...
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... be supposed to have been the result of concert or collusion , but it must have been founded in some reason which operated equally on all their minds . ( 3. ) In like manner , and with like 1842. ] 53 On Hebrews IX : 16-18 .
... be supposed to have been the result of concert or collusion , but it must have been founded in some reason which operated equally on all their minds . ( 3. ) In like manner , and with like 1842. ] 53 On Hebrews IX : 16-18 .
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