Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Dante” in chapter 1, page 105 of James Russell Lowell, Among my books:
... virtues might avail even without true religion, that it might be understood how, this added, men became citizens of another city whose king is truth, whose law charity, and whose measure eternity.
Dante goes further than this.
He makes the Romans as well as the Jews a chosen people, the one as founders of civil society, the other as depositaries of the true faith. One side of Dante's mind
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