Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 839
... Italy , Theodore Gaza and George of Trebizond , Bes- sarion and Filelfo , Marsilio Ficino and Poggio Bracciolini . By him was founded the Vatican library , then and long after the most precious and the most extensive collection of books ...
... Italy , Theodore Gaza and George of Trebizond , Bes- sarion and Filelfo , Marsilio Ficino and Poggio Bracciolini . By him was founded the Vatican library , then and long after the most precious and the most extensive collection of books ...
Page 840
... Italian shuddered at the thought of it . But it is not on the fertility of the soil , it is not on the mildness of the atmosphere , that the prosperity of nations chiefly depends . Slavery and superstition can make Cam- pania a land of ...
... Italian shuddered at the thought of it . But it is not on the fertility of the soil , it is not on the mildness of the atmosphere , that the prosperity of nations chiefly depends . Slavery and superstition can make Cam- pania a land of ...
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... Italian , Spanish , and German is rather in sustaining a higher aver- age of excellence for a longer period of time . The litera- ture of the Italian language , of the Spanish , and of the German has no such bead - roll of writers of ...
... Italian , Spanish , and German is rather in sustaining a higher aver- age of excellence for a longer period of time . The litera- ture of the Italian language , of the Spanish , and of the German has no such bead - roll of writers of ...
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... Italy and Spain ( under the cover of secrecy ) ; in various parts of Asia ; in Turkey ; in Syria ( as at Aleppo , where an English Lodge was established more than a century ago ) ; in all the East India settlements , in Bengal , Bombay ...
... Italy and Spain ( under the cover of secrecy ) ; in various parts of Asia ; in Turkey ; in Syria ( as at Aleppo , where an English Lodge was established more than a century ago ) ; in all the East India settlements , in Bengal , Bombay ...
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... Italy only ) came to the front when those branches of it that were the work of collective rather than individual genius , architecture especially , had quite reached their highest perfection . Men began to look round for some- thing ...
... Italy only ) came to the front when those branches of it that were the work of collective rather than individual genius , architecture especially , had quite reached their highest perfection . Men began to look round for some- thing ...
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