De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... Augustus . But Sir William , ascribing no force to the acts of a people who had sunk so low as to exult in their chains , and to decorate with honors the very instruments of their own vassalage , would not recognise this popular crea ...
... Augustus . But Sir William , ascribing no force to the acts of a people who had sunk so low as to exult in their chains , and to decorate with honors the very instruments of their own vassalage , would not recognise this popular crea ...
Side 64
... Augustus , at once a trophy of public merit , a monument of public gratitude , and an effectual obliteration of his own natal obscurity . But , if merely odious to men of Sir William's prin- ciples , to others the character of Augustus ...
... Augustus , at once a trophy of public merit , a monument of public gratitude , and an effectual obliteration of his own natal obscurity . But , if merely odious to men of Sir William's prin- ciples , to others the character of Augustus ...
Side 66
... Augustus was often vaunted by an- tiquity , ( with whom success was not so much a test of merit as itself a merit of the highest quality , ) and in no instance was this felicity more conspicuous than in the first act of his entrance ...
... Augustus was often vaunted by an- tiquity , ( with whom success was not so much a test of merit as itself a merit of the highest quality , ) and in no instance was this felicity more conspicuous than in the first act of his entrance ...
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... Augustus , on terms far below those which they must in prudence have exacted from the fiery and adventurous Anthony . Each was an ideal in his own class . But Augustus , having finally triumphed , has met with more than justice from ...
... Augustus , on terms far below those which they must in prudence have exacted from the fiery and adventurous Anthony . Each was an ideal in his own class . But Augustus , having finally triumphed , has met with more than justice from ...
Side 71
... Augustus affect , and in reality attain , at a time when the very object of all civic feeling was absolutely extinct ; so much are men governed by words . Suetonius assures us , that many evidences were current even to his times of this ...
... Augustus affect , and in reality attain , at a time when the very object of all civic feeling was absolutely extinct ; so much are men governed by words . Suetonius assures us , that many evidences were current even to his times of this ...
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