Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools

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Ginn, 1897 - Rome - 371 pages
 

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Page 371 - Poetics 1.00 Hudson : Harvard Edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works : — 20 Vol. Ed. Cloth, retail, $25.00; Half-calf, retail . 55.00 10 Vol. Ed. Cloth, retail, $20.00; Half-calf, retail . 40.00 Life, Art, and Characters of Shakespeare. 2 vols. Cloth, 4.00 New School Shakespeare. Each play : Paper, .30 ; Cloth, .45 Text-Book of Poetry ; Text-Book of Prose . .Each 1.25 Classical English Reader 1.00 Lockwood: Lessons in English, $1.12; Thanatopsis 10 Maxcy : Tragedy of Hamlet 45 MintO : Manual of...
Page 371 - ... $20.00; Half-calf, retail . 40.00 Life, Art, and Characters of Shakespeare. 2 vols. Cloth, 4.00 New School Shakespeare. Each play : Paper, .30 ; Cloth, .45 Text-Book of Poetry ; Text-Book of Prose . . Each 1.25 Classical English Reader 1.00...
Page 149 - Quid, quod usque proximos Revellis agri terminos et ultra Limites clientium Salis avarus ? Pellitur paternos In sinu ferens deos Et uxor et vir sordidosque natos.
Page 325 - It was at first my wish to destroy the Roman name, and erect in its place a Gothic empire, taking to myself the place and the powers of Caesar Augustus. But when experience taught me that the...
Page 371 - Corson: Primer of English Verse 1.00 Emery : Notes on English Literature 1.00 English Literature Pamphlets : Ancient Mariner, .05 ; First Bunker Hill Address, .10; Essay on Lord Clive, .15 ; Second Essay on the Earl of Chatham, .15 ; Burke, I.
Page vi - ... secondly, it introduces us to the life of a past generation, so that its thoughts, its emotions, its habits, its concerns, may in a measure become as real to us as that of the age in which we live, and the people whom we meet every day. These we may call the philosophical and the picturesque aspects of history ; and I do not know of any other benefit conferred by historical study. No historical fact is of any value except so far as it helps us to understand human nature or the working of historic...
Page 143 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates; (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates) The day when thou, imperial Troy ! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Page 371 - Introd. Price. Alexander: Introduction to Browning $1.00 Athenaeum Press Series: Bates: Select Poems from Keats 1.00 Cook: Sidney's Defense of Poesy 80 Gates: Selections from Jeffrey .90 Gummere: Old English Ballads 1.25 Hale: Selections from Herrick 90 Phelps: Selections from Thomas Gray .90 Schelling: Ben Jonson's Timber 80 Baker: Principles of Argumentation 1.12 Elizabethan Lyrics 1.12 Cook: A First Book in Old English 1.50 Shelley's Defense of Poetry .50 The Art of Poetry 1.12 Hunt's
Page 371 - Whitney : Essentials of English Grammar 75 Whitney & Lockwood : English Grammar 70 Winchester : Five Short Courses of Reading in English Literature, .40 AND OTHER VALUABLE WORKS. CINN & COMPANY, Publishers...

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