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... called ) , were very corrupt ; and easily swayed to an unconscientious verdict , by the appearance in court of any great man on behalf of one of the parties interested : nor was such an interference with the course of private justice ...
... called ) , were very corrupt ; and easily swayed to an unconscientious verdict , by the appearance in court of any great man on behalf of one of the parties interested : nor was such an interference with the course of private justice ...
Side 105
... called for a gladiator of the house- hold to come and dispatch him . But none appearing , - " What ! " said he , " have I neither friend nor foe ? " And so saying , he ran towards the Tiber , with the purpose of drowning himself . But ...
... called for a gladiator of the house- hold to come and dispatch him . But none appearing , - " What ! " said he , " have I neither friend nor foe ? " And so saying , he ran towards the Tiber , with the purpose of drowning himself . But ...
Side 110
... called upon Sporus , the infamous partner in his former excesses , to commence the funeral anthem . Others , again , he besought to lead the way in dying , and to sustain him by the spectacle of their example . But this purpose also he ...
... called upon Sporus , the infamous partner in his former excesses , to commence the funeral anthem . Others , again , he besought to lead the way in dying , and to sustain him by the spectacle of their example . But this purpose also he ...
Side 112
... called the Roman stratocracy then disposing of the world , that within no very great succession of weeks that same victorious rebel , the Emperor Galba , at whose feet Nero had been self - immolated , was laid a murdered corpse in the ...
... called the Roman stratocracy then disposing of the world , that within no very great succession of weeks that same victorious rebel , the Emperor Galba , at whose feet Nero had been self - immolated , was laid a murdered corpse in the ...
Side 113
... called , we find matter for deeper political meditation and subjects of curious research . But these emperors would be more properly classed with the five who succeed them- Nerva , Trajan , Hadrian , and the two Antonines ; after whom ...
... called , we find matter for deeper political meditation and subjects of curious research . But these emperors would be more properly classed with the five who succeed them- Nerva , Trajan , Hadrian , and the two Antonines ; after whom ...
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De Quincey's Writings: Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men ..., Bind 1 Thomas De Quincey Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2006 |
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