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Pagina 355
... Tacitus , were equally ignorant of the art of writing as a vehicle of literature ; yet for all that we could not say , with Gibbon , that with them the nobler faculties of the mind had lost their powers , the judgment had become feeble ...
... Tacitus , were equally ignorant of the art of writing as a vehicle of literature ; yet for all that we could not say , with Gibbon , that with them the nobler faculties of the mind had lost their powers , the judgment had become feeble ...
Pagina 362
... Tacitus . If history means the evidence of con- temporary eyewitnesses , I doubt whether history will ever enable us to see further into the natural transition of barbarism into civilization than in the “ Germania ” of Tacitus . To ...
... Tacitus . If history means the evidence of con- temporary eyewitnesses , I doubt whether history will ever enable us to see further into the natural transition of barbarism into civilization than in the “ Germania ” of Tacitus . To ...
Pagina 363
... Tacitus , has had various fates . To every German , to every member of the Teutonic race , it has always been a kind of national charter , a picture of a golden age , adorned with all that is considered most perfect , pure , and noble ...
... Tacitus , has had various fates . To every German , to every member of the Teutonic race , it has always been a kind of national charter , a picture of a golden age , adorned with all that is considered most perfect , pure , and noble ...
Pagina 364
... Tacitus , therefore , and not Tacitus as an historical document of the in the missionary accounts of Melanesian earliest stage of society , that he amused savages , should we study the truly primi- himself with collecting from various ...
... Tacitus , therefore , and not Tacitus as an historical document of the in the missionary accounts of Melanesian earliest stage of society , that he amused savages , should we study the truly primi- himself with collecting from various ...
Pagina 365
... Tacitus , but not to Fuegians , who in time and probably in space also are the most widely removed from the primitive inhabitants of our globe . If we knew nothing of the manners and customs of the Saxons , when they first settled in ...
... Tacitus , but not to Fuegians , who in time and probably in space also are the most widely removed from the primitive inhabitants of our globe . If we knew nothing of the manners and customs of the Saxons , when they first settled in ...
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