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... received an education , which , regarded in the light of the purpose which it was designed to serve , has fallen to the lot of no other people upon earth . Here strength of body was used not as a means for supplying the bloody and ...
... received an education , which , regarded in the light of the purpose which it was designed to serve , has fallen to the lot of no other people upon earth . Here strength of body was used not as a means for supplying the bloody and ...
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... received some limitations from Lykourgos to whom the Spartans attributed the establishment of the Gerousia , or senate of twenty - eight old men ( the whole number of the assembly being thirty , as the kings sat and voted with them ) ...
... received some limitations from Lykourgos to whom the Spartans attributed the establishment of the Gerousia , or senate of twenty - eight old men ( the whole number of the assembly being thirty , as the kings sat and voted with them ) ...
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... received the child from the unsuspecting Labda . But the man who took him from his mother's hands , un- nerved by a smile of the babe , handed him on to the next man , and this man to the third until , when all had in turn taken him ...
... received the child from the unsuspecting Labda . But the man who took him from his mother's hands , un- nerved by a smile of the babe , handed him on to the next man , and this man to the third until , when all had in turn taken him ...
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... received an adequate answer . The subject was one which admitted of no doubt , and the system thus gradually raised had the solemn sanction of religion . This system was the mythological , and it was marked by this special feature that ...
... received an adequate answer . The subject was one which admitted of no doubt , and the system thus gradually raised had the solemn sanction of religion . This system was the mythological , and it was marked by this special feature that ...
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... received from them in writing . It is not pretended that Aristotle or later writers derived their knowledge from Egypt ; and the plea that they revealed to Hipparchos the precession of the equinoxes discovered by that illustrious ...
... received from them in writing . It is not pretended that Aristotle or later writers derived their knowledge from Egypt ; and the plea that they revealed to Hipparchos the precession of the equinoxes discovered by that illustrious ...
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