Towards Independence: Essays on ScotlandPolygon, 1991 - 220 páginas |
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... Romans , has a long catalogue of the Roman virtues , the qualities which the Romans admired and liked to think they possessed : pietas , gravitas ( ' a sense of the importance of the matters in hand ' ) , constantia , firmitas ...
... Romans , has a long catalogue of the Roman virtues , the qualities which the Romans admired and liked to think they possessed : pietas , gravitas ( ' a sense of the importance of the matters in hand ' ) , constantia , firmitas ...
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... Roman virtues , we are still affected by them . They set the standards by which we are judged , whether we like it or not . It is paradoxical that a part of Europe which defied Roman annexa- tion should have cultivated Roman qualities ...
... Roman virtues , we are still affected by them . They set the standards by which we are judged , whether we like it or not . It is paradoxical that a part of Europe which defied Roman annexa- tion should have cultivated Roman qualities ...
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... Roman , as a term of the highest praise . ' A Roman , ' says Scott talking of Davie Deans in The Heart of Midlothian , ' would have devoted his daughter to death from different failings and motives , but not upon a more heroic principle ...
... Roman , as a term of the highest praise . ' A Roman , ' says Scott talking of Davie Deans in The Heart of Midlothian , ' would have devoted his daughter to death from different failings and motives , but not upon a more heroic principle ...
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1 | 19 |
The Discouraged Optimists | 25 |
The Scottish Malaise | 43 |
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