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Page 87
... style reaches the acme of forcible expres- sion , " the most sustained example of a lapidary style before Gibbon . " His language is so terse , so taut , so sinewy , that it is the hardest prose in Latin literature to read . But few ...
... style reaches the acme of forcible expres- sion , " the most sustained example of a lapidary style before Gibbon . " His language is so terse , so taut , so sinewy , that it is the hardest prose in Latin literature to read . But few ...
Page 436
... style , method , and personality of the authors . James of Aragon was his own hero ; Desclot's hero is Pedro III of Aragon ( Pedro I of Valencia and Pedro II of Catalonia ) . Their century was as massive and spacious as the Elizabethan ...
... style , method , and personality of the authors . James of Aragon was his own hero ; Desclot's hero is Pedro III of Aragon ( Pedro I of Valencia and Pedro II of Catalonia ) . Their century was as massive and spacious as the Elizabethan ...
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... style . It is my purpose [ Sarpi states his own position frankly ] to write the History of the Council of Trent ... style could cut mercilessly into the Jesuits - his bêtes noires - with- out the need of distorting facts . His cold and ...
... style . It is my purpose [ Sarpi states his own position frankly ] to write the History of the Council of Trent ... style could cut mercilessly into the Jesuits - his bêtes noires - with- out the need of distorting facts . His cold and ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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