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Roman tradition of government . Had it not been for the Roman Empire it is doubtful whether western civilisation would have grown beyond the constitution of large States on the oriental despotic model on the one hand , or beyond ...
Roman tradition of government . Had it not been for the Roman Empire it is doubtful whether western civilisation would have grown beyond the constitution of large States on the oriental despotic model on the one hand , or beyond ...
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The Renaissance had come , a spiritual movement which , though it looked back to ancient Rome , reacted against the unbroken continuity of the Christianised Roman tradition of the Middle Ages and looked back , beyond Rome , with still ...
The Renaissance had come , a spiritual movement which , though it looked back to ancient Rome , reacted against the unbroken continuity of the Christianised Roman tradition of the Middle Ages and looked back , beyond Rome , with still ...
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for all that , between the two contending forces , though the energy of her speculative genius has actually had the result of weakening the Roman tradition in Europe more and more . And the new ideas , in bringing with them ever new ...
for all that , between the two contending forces , though the energy of her speculative genius has actually had the result of weakening the Roman tradition in Europe more and more . And the new ideas , in bringing with them ever new ...
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