History as Literature, and Other Essays"Addresses I made before the American Historical Association, the University of Oxford, the University of Berlin, and the Sorbonne at Paris, together with six essays I wrote for the Outlook, and one that I wrote for the Century."--Preface. |
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... empire to empire , Shalmaneser and Sargon , Amenhotep and Rameses , are but shadows ; for the deeds and the deaths of the kings of Judah and Israel are written in words that , once read , can not be forgotten . The Pelo- ponnesian War ...
... empire to empire , Shalmaneser and Sargon , Amenhotep and Rameses , are but shadows ; for the deeds and the deaths of the kings of Judah and Israel are written in words that , once read , can not be forgotten . The Pelo- ponnesian War ...
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... Empire by the many men who have studied it of recent years ; we read each new writer with pleasure and profit ; and after reading each we take down a volume of Gibbon , with renewed thankfulness that a great writer was moved to do a ...
... Empire by the many men who have studied it of recent years ; we read each new writer with pleasure and profit ; and after reading each we take down a volume of Gibbon , with renewed thankfulness that a great writer was moved to do a ...
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... empires of which the very ruins crumbled to dust ages ago . Along ancient trade - routes , across the world's waste spaces , the caravans shall move ; and the admirals of uncharted seas shall furrow the oceans with their lonely prows ...
... empires of which the very ruins crumbled to dust ages ago . Along ancient trade - routes , across the world's waste spaces , the caravans shall move ; and the admirals of uncharted seas shall furrow the oceans with their lonely prows ...
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... Empire ; and it was here that the new kingdoms first took shape . Through a reflex action their influence then ex- tended back into the cold forests from which the invaders had come , and Germany and Scandi- navia witnessed the rise of ...
... Empire ; and it was here that the new kingdoms first took shape . Through a reflex action their influence then ex- tended back into the cold forests from which the invaders had come , and Germany and Scandi- navia witnessed the rise of ...
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Theodore Roosevelt. munities of the forest and the steppe , formed the mighty Russian Empire of to - day . Again , the new form may represent merely a splitting off from a long - established , highly de- veloped , and specialized nation ...
Theodore Roosevelt. munities of the forest and the steppe , formed the mighty Russian Empire of to - day . Again , the new form may represent merely a splitting off from a long - established , highly de- veloped , and specialized nation ...
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