Of the Denationalisation of Constantinople: And Its Devotion to International Purposes; Introductory Lecture, Session 1876-77 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Tacitus looked back on the fifteen years of the reign of Domitian, during which silence had been imposed on the Roman world, as grands mortalis mm' spa tin m, struck out of his own life and the lives of his contemporaries. At the commencement of my fifteenth session, I cannot but refi ect with thankfulness on the precious opportunities of speech which I have enjoyed, with no Domitian to make me afraid, and with a little band of friends and fellow-labourers who have never failed to sym pathise with me in the studies which I loved.

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