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The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2

Note 18 — II. MR. FINLAY'S HISTORY OF GREECE.

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'Intestine war.' Many writers call the Peloponnesian war (by the way, a very false designation) the great civil war of Greece. 'Civil'!—it might have been such, had the Grecian states had a central organ which claimed a common obedience.

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