De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... Cæsar . Ubi Casar , ibi Roma maxim of Roman jurisprudence . And the same maxim may be translated into a wider meaning ; in which it becomes true also for our historical experience . Cæsar and Rome have flourished and expired together ...
... Cæsar . Ubi Casar , ibi Roma maxim of Roman jurisprudence . And the same maxim may be translated into a wider meaning ; in which it becomes true also for our historical experience . Cæsar and Rome have flourished and expired together ...
Side 7
... Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity ...
... Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity ...
Side 8
... Cæsar , her final Romulus , completed for Rome that which the rape under Romulus , her earliest Cæsar , had prosperously begun . And thus by one godlike man was a nation - city matured ; and from the ever- lasting and nameless 3 city ...
... Cæsar , her final Romulus , completed for Rome that which the rape under Romulus , her earliest Cæsar , had prosperously begun . And thus by one godlike man was a nation - city matured ; and from the ever- lasting and nameless 3 city ...
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... Cæsar is watching some mighty rebel of the Orient , at a distance of two thousand leagues , and he overlooks the dagger which is at his own heart . In short , all the heights and the depths which belong to man as aspirers , all the con ...
... Cæsar is watching some mighty rebel of the Orient , at a distance of two thousand leagues , and he overlooks the dagger which is at his own heart . In short , all the heights and the depths which belong to man as aspirers , all the con ...
Side 26
... follow , we can undertake that the memorials which we shall bring forward , may be looked upon as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book . CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar has perhaps 26 THE CESARS .
... follow , we can undertake that the memorials which we shall bring forward , may be looked upon as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book . CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar has perhaps 26 THE CESARS .
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