PetrarchWilliam Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 148 páginas |
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... lived there , that so little had been done to condense and utilise these vast materials , to correct the errors with which the earlier editions of the Latin works abound , and to print those portions which still existed in manuscript ...
... lived there , that so little had been done to condense and utilise these vast materials , to correct the errors with which the earlier editions of the Latin works abound , and to print those portions which still existed in manuscript ...
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... lived . We have them before us with the stamp of a complete reality ; and recent literary investigations have only rendered this certainty more absolute . For in our own time a work of far greater importance has been accomplished in ...
... lived . We have them before us with the stamp of a complete reality ; and recent literary investigations have only rendered this certainty more absolute . For in our own time a work of far greater importance has been accomplished in ...
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... lived five hundred years ago . The letters of Cicero and the letters of the younger Pliny offer the nearest parallel ; but Cicero leaves much to be gathered from other histories , and Pliny's life is extremely incomplete . Petrarch is ...
... lived five hundred years ago . The letters of Cicero and the letters of the younger Pliny offer the nearest parallel ; but Cicero leaves much to be gathered from other histories , and Pliny's life is extremely incomplete . Petrarch is ...
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... the great post of Papal Secretary was five times offered to him . In a warlike and lawless age he lived exclusively for the glory of letters . In a clerical age he denounced the corruptions and evils of the Church . In.
... the great post of Papal Secretary was five times offered to him . In a warlike and lawless age he lived exclusively for the glory of letters . In a clerical age he denounced the corruptions and evils of the Church . In.
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... lived on to the verge of human life , rich , honoured of all men , speaking his thoughts on all subjects with absolute freedom ; treating as his equals popes , emperors , kings , and senators ; rebuking the list- less or the corrupt ...
... lived on to the verge of human life , rich , honoured of all men , speaking his thoughts on all subjects with absolute freedom ; treating as his equals popes , emperors , kings , and senators ; rebuking the list- less or the corrupt ...
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