History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Volumen2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1877 |
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... Historians exaggerate the importance of civic virtues General Moral Condition of the Byzantine Empire Stress laid by moralists on trivial matters . Corruption of the clergy · Childishness and vice of the populace The better aspects of ...
... Historians exaggerate the importance of civic virtues General Moral Condition of the Byzantine Empire Stress laid by moralists on trivial matters . Corruption of the clergy · Childishness and vice of the populace The better aspects of ...
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... historian and the biographer take no note , which have no perceptible influence upon society , and which scarcely elicit a comment among mankind , may be made the grounds of eternal condemnation beyond the grave , was altogether un ...
... historian and the biographer take no note , which have no perceptible influence upon society , and which scarcely elicit a comment among mankind , may be made the grounds of eternal condemnation beyond the grave , was altogether un ...
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... historian can look with the deepest and most unmingled satisfaction . Horrible as was the bloodshed they directly caused , these games were perhaps still more pernicious on account of the callousness of feeling they diffused through all ...
... historian can look with the deepest and most unmingled satisfaction . Horrible as was the bloodshed they directly caused , these games were perhaps still more pernicious on account of the callousness of feeling they diffused through all ...
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... historian of suicide has even asserted that a Spanish lady , who , being separated from her husband , and finding herself unable to resist the energy of her passions , killed herself rather than yield to temptation , is the only ...
... historian of suicide has even asserted that a Spanish lady , who , being separated from her husband , and finding herself unable to resist the energy of her passions , killed herself rather than yield to temptation , is the only ...
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... historians ; and it is easy to conceive what inadequate notions of our existing charities could be gleaned from the casual allusions in plays or poems , in political histories or court memoirs . There can , however , be no question that ...
... historians ; and it is easy to conceive what inadequate notions of our existing charities could be gleaned from the casual allusions in plays or poems , in political histories or court memoirs . There can , however , be no question that ...
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