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A New History Of Rome.* When Livy Said That He

would have made Pompey win the battle of Pharsalia if the turn of the sentence bad required it, he was not talking utter nonsense, but simply expressing an important truth in a......

Books.

THE POETRY OF ISAIA.H.* THREE great poetical books—the Book of Job, the Psalms, and the Book of the Prophet Isaiah—are the glory of Hebrew 'literature. No,. other race can set......