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... According to this man's gigantic enterprise , in which the means were as audacious as the purpose , the conspirators were to rendezvous , and first to recog- nise each other at the gates of Rome . From the Danube to the Tiber did this ...
... According to this man's gigantic enterprise , in which the means were as audacious as the purpose , the conspirators were to rendezvous , and first to recog- nise each other at the gates of Rome . From the Danube to the Tiber did this ...
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... epic dignity , which has its only parallel by the way in the case of Vasco de Gama , ( according to the narrative of Ca- moens , ) when met and confronted by a sea phantom , whilst attempting to double the Cape of Storms , ( 38 THE CESARS .
... epic dignity , which has its only parallel by the way in the case of Vasco de Gama , ( according to the narrative of Ca- moens , ) when met and confronted by a sea phantom , whilst attempting to double the Cape of Storms , ( 38 THE CESARS .
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... according to some accounts , it was not Sylla , but the creatures of Sylla ( adjutores ) , who pursued Cæsar . We know , at all events , that Sylla formed a right estimate of Cæsar's character , and that , from the complexion of his ...
... according to some accounts , it was not Sylla , but the creatures of Sylla ( adjutores ) , who pursued Cæsar . We know , at all events , that Sylla formed a right estimate of Cæsar's character , and that , from the complexion of his ...
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... according to every known variety of nautical equipment and mode of con- flict , upon a vast lake formed artificially for that express purpose . Mimic land - fights were conducted , in which all the circumstances of real war were so ...
... according to every known variety of nautical equipment and mode of con- flict , upon a vast lake formed artificially for that express purpose . Mimic land - fights were conducted , in which all the circumstances of real war were so ...
Side 56
Thomas De Quincey. the emperor's grave . Never before , according to tra- ditions which lasted through several generations in Rome , had there been so vast a conflux of the human race congregated to any one centre , on any one attrac ...
Thomas De Quincey. the emperor's grave . Never before , according to tra- ditions which lasted through several generations in Rome , had there been so vast a conflux of the human race congregated to any one centre , on any one attrac ...
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