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... civil liberties . Doubtless , then , Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius . But , if it were Caius Julius who deflowered Rome , if under him she forfeited her dowery of civic purity , if to him she first ...
... civil liberties . Doubtless , then , Rome had risen immaculate from the arms of Sylla and of Marius . But , if it were Caius Julius who deflowered Rome , if under him she forfeited her dowery of civic purity , if to him she first ...
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... 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.
... 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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... over- throw of the state in a continued paroxysm of fury , and in a state of mind resembling the lunacy of intoxi- cation , that Cæsar , on the contrary , among that whole class of civil disturbers , was the only one who 28 THE CÆSARS .
... over- throw of the state in a continued paroxysm of fury , and in a state of mind resembling the lunacy of intoxi- cation , that Cæsar , on the contrary , among that whole class of civil disturbers , was the only one who 28 THE CÆSARS .
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Thomas De Quincey. class of civil disturbers , was the only one who had come to the task in a temper of sobriety and modera- tion , ( unum accessisse sobrium ad rempublicam delen- dam . ) In reality , Lucan did not think as he wrote . He ...
Thomas De Quincey. class of civil disturbers , was the only one who had come to the task in a temper of sobriety and modera- tion , ( unum accessisse sobrium ad rempublicam delen- dam . ) In reality , Lucan did not think as he wrote . He ...
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... civil conflict and the yoke of practical life , even his energies would have been insufficient to sustain them . His age is not exactly ascertained , but it is past a doubt that he had not reached his twentieth when he had the hardihood ...
... civil conflict and the yoke of practical life , even his energies would have been insufficient to sustain them . His age is not exactly ascertained , but it is past a doubt that he had not reached his twentieth when he had the hardihood ...
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