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... Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama ...
... Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature , in epic and lyric poems , drama ...
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... Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it . But Xeno ...
... Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it . But Xeno ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. with the generals on each new order , and Xenophon is as sharp - tongued as any , and sharper - tongued than most , and so gives as good as he gets . Who does not see that this is a gang of great boys , with such a ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. with the generals on each new order , and Xenophon is as sharp - tongued as any , and sharper - tongued than most , and so gives as good as he gets . Who does not see that this is a gang of great boys , with such a ...
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... . That coun- try is the fairest , which is inhabited by the noblest minds . The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles , Xenophon , Colum- - bus , Bayard , Sidney , Hampden , teach us 234 ESSAY VIII .
... . That coun- try is the fairest , which is inhabited by the noblest minds . The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles , Xenophon , Colum- - bus , Bayard , Sidney , Hampden , teach us 234 ESSAY VIII .
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