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... caused her to fulfill the func- tions of her nature ; he compelled her to exchange the imperfect and inchoate condition of a mere fæmina for the perfections of a mulier . And , metaphor apart , we maintain that Rome lost no liberties by ...
... caused her to fulfill the func- tions of her nature ; he compelled her to exchange the imperfect and inchoate condition of a mere fæmina for the perfections of a mulier . And , metaphor apart , we maintain that Rome lost no liberties by ...
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... the Assyrian or earliest , we may remark , that it found men in no state of cohesion . This cause , which came in aid of its first foundation , would probably con- tinue ; and would diminish the intensity of the power 12 THE CÆSARS .
... the Assyrian or earliest , we may remark , that it found men in no state of cohesion . This cause , which came in aid of its first foundation , would probably con- tinue ; and would diminish the intensity of the power 12 THE CÆSARS .
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... cause and effect , would also bring a third anecdote under the same nexus . We are told that Calpurnia , the last wife of Cæsar , dreamed on the same night , and to the same ominous result . The circumstances of her dream are less ...
... cause and effect , would also bring a third anecdote under the same nexus . We are told that Calpurnia , the last wife of Cæsar , dreamed on the same night , and to the same ominous result . The circumstances of her dream are less ...
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... cause , and that of the soldiers , with the cause of the people of Rome and of Roman liberty ; and perhaps with needless rhetoric attempted to conciliate those who were by a thousand ties and by claims innumerable , his own already ...
... cause , and that of the soldiers , with the cause of the people of Rome and of Roman liberty ; and perhaps with needless rhetoric attempted to conciliate those who were by a thousand ties and by claims innumerable , his own already ...
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... cause of so entire a revolution in his mode of living . It might seem to throw some doubt , if not upon the fact , yet at least upon the sincerity , of his civism , that undoubtedly Augustus cultivated his kingly connections with ...
... cause of so entire a revolution in his mode of living . It might seem to throw some doubt , if not upon the fact , yet at least upon the sincerity , of his civism , that undoubtedly Augustus cultivated his kingly connections with ...
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