De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... 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 . The illimitable attributes of the Roman ...
... 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 . The illimitable attributes of the Roman ...
Side 7
... 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 of her civil liberties ...
... 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 of her civil liberties ...
Side 8
... Roman Cæsars all modern kings , kesars , or empe- rors , are mere phantoms of royalty . The Cæsar of Western Rome - he only of all earthly potentates , past or to come , could be said to reign as a monarch , - that is , as a solitary ...
... Roman Cæsars all modern kings , kesars , or empe- rors , are mere phantoms of royalty . The Cæsar of Western Rome - he only of all earthly potentates , past or to come , could be said to reign as a monarch , - that is , as a solitary ...
Side 11
... Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another heaven , and across the wilderness of fourteen centuries ! Splen- dor , thus transmitted , thus sustained ...
... Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another heaven , and across the wilderness of fourteen centuries ! Splen- dor , thus transmitted , thus sustained ...
Side 13
... arts of civility , and of civil organization , had made great progress before the Roman strength was measured against it . In Macedon , in Achaia , in Syria , in ― - Asia Minor , in Egypt , every where the members THE CESARS . 13.
... arts of civility , and of civil organization , had made great progress before the Roman strength was measured against it . In Macedon , in Achaia , in Syria , in ― - Asia Minor , in Egypt , every where the members THE CESARS . 13.
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