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... notes , or memoranda , afterwards to be worked up by regular historians ; but , as Cicero observes , their merit was such in the eyes of the dis- cerning , that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them . In another ...
... notes , or memoranda , afterwards to be worked up by regular historians ; but , as Cicero observes , their merit was such in the eyes of the dis- cerning , that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them . In another ...
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... undoubtedly the sublimest incarnation of power , and a monument the mightiest of greatness built by human hands , which upon this planet has been suffered to appear . NOTES . NOTE 1. Page 5 . Concerning this question 262 THE CESARS .
... undoubtedly the sublimest incarnation of power , and a monument the mightiest of greatness built by human hands , which upon this planet has been suffered to appear . NOTES . NOTE 1. Page 5 . Concerning this question 262 THE CESARS .
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Thomas De Quincey. NOTES . NOTE 1. Page 5 . Concerning this question - -- once so fervidly debated , yet so unprofitably for the final adjudication , and in some respects , we may add , so erroneously on a future occasion . NOTE 2. Page ...
Thomas De Quincey. NOTES . NOTE 1. Page 5 . Concerning this question - -- once so fervidly debated , yet so unprofitably for the final adjudication , and in some respects , we may add , so erroneously on a future occasion . NOTE 2. Page ...
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... NOTE 6. Page 16 . Unless that hand were her own armed against herself ; upon which topic there is a burst of noble eloquence in one of the ancient Panegyrici , when haranguing the Emperor Theodo- sius : " Thou , Rome ! that , having ...
... NOTE 6. Page 16 . Unless that hand were her own armed against herself ; upon which topic there is a burst of noble eloquence in one of the ancient Panegyrici , when haranguing the Emperor Theodo- sius : " Thou , Rome ! that , having ...
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Thomas De Quincey. NOTE 8. Page 35 . It is an interesting circumstance in the habits of the ancient Romans , that ... NOTES . 265.
Thomas De Quincey. NOTE 8. Page 35 . It is an interesting circumstance in the habits of the ancient Romans , that ... NOTES . 265.
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