De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... cannot but be admired as prodigious growths out of so small a stem . In that view they will be endless monuments in attestation of the marvels which are lodged in civilization . But considered in and for 14 THE CÆSARS .
... cannot but be admired as prodigious growths out of so small a stem . In that view they will be endless monuments in attestation of the marvels which are lodged in civilization . But considered in and for 14 THE CÆSARS .
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Thomas De Quincey. are lodged in civilization . But considered in and for itself , and with no reference to the proportion of the creating forces , each of these empires has the great defect of being disjointed , and even insusceptible ...
Thomas De Quincey. are lodged in civilization . But considered in and for itself , and with no reference to the proportion of the creating forces , each of these empires has the great defect of being disjointed , and even insusceptible ...
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... considered a " divina domus . " It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally upon hypocrisy . Undoubtedly the expressions of this feeling are sometimes gross and overcharged , as we find them in the very ...
... considered a " divina domus . " It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally upon hypocrisy . Undoubtedly the expressions of this feeling are sometimes gross and overcharged , as we find them in the very ...
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... considered in and for itself , and simply with a reference to the splendid forms which it often assumed , this munificence would furnish the materials for a volume . The public entertainments of Cæsar , his spectacles and shows , his ...
... considered in and for itself , and simply with a reference to the splendid forms which it often assumed , this munificence would furnish the materials for a volume . The public entertainments of Cæsar , his spectacles and shows , his ...
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... considered abstractedly in and for himself , and as having an independent value but always and exclusively in man as a gregaricus being , and designed for social uses and functions . Not man in his own peculiar nature , but man in his ...
... considered abstractedly in and for himself , and as having an independent value but always and exclusively in man as a gregaricus being , and designed for social uses and functions . Not man in his own peculiar nature , but man in his ...
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