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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 268

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ngue is peculiarly capable. Her own house was the resort of some ofthe first philosophers of the day, who, like many modern philosophers,■were thoroughly impressed with the idea that the way to penetrate theyouthful mind, is to continue for ever boring it. In this manner theunderstandings of the… … N ^ CHAP. XXIII.] TIBERIUS S. GRACCHUS. 235 openings by which they had got into the mind, might find their wayout again. Tib. had already won some reputation in Spain, and was returninghome, when he saw the Etrurian estates of the wealthy being cultivatedby foreign slaves in chains, whose bonds not…

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