De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... authority , must be invested by all minds alike with some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the next world . Thus , for instance , the Pope , as the father of Catholic Christendom , could not but be viewed with awe by any ...
... authority , must be invested by all minds alike with some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the next world . Thus , for instance , the Pope , as the father of Catholic Christendom , could not but be viewed with awe by any ...
Side 43
... authority does not annihilate their sex ; and scruples of female delicacy interfere for ever to un- nerve and emasculate in their hands the sceptre however otherwise potent . Hence we see , in noble families , the merest boys put ...
... authority does not annihilate their sex ; and scruples of female delicacy interfere for ever to un- nerve and emasculate in their hands the sceptre however otherwise potent . Hence we see , in noble families , the merest boys put ...
Side 47
... authorities . In reality it is the hinge upon which turned the future destiny of the whole earth , and having therefore a common relation to all modern - nations whatsoever , should naturally have been culti- vated THE CÆSARS . 47.
... authorities . In reality it is the hinge upon which turned the future destiny of the whole earth , and having therefore a common relation to all modern - nations whatsoever , should naturally have been culti- vated THE CÆSARS . 47.
Side 84
... authority , he was baffled , dishon- ored , and made ridiculous . He was loved by nobody ; and if , at the moment of his death , he desired his friends to dismiss him from this world by the common expression of scenical applause , ( vos ...
... authority , he was baffled , dishon- ored , and made ridiculous . He was loved by nobody ; and if , at the moment of his death , he desired his friends to dismiss him from this world by the common expression of scenical applause , ( vos ...
Side 87
... authority : - - On some occasion it happened that a dearth prevailed , either generally of cattle , or of such cattle as were used for feeding the wild beasts reserved for the bloody exhibitions of the amphitheatre . Food could be had ...
... authority : - - On some occasion it happened that a dearth prevailed , either generally of cattle , or of such cattle as were used for feeding the wild beasts reserved for the bloody exhibitions of the amphitheatre . Food could be had ...
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