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... continued to lave , as with the quiet undulations of summer lakes , the sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne ? The Byzantine court , which , merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that august throne , was drunk with excess of ...
... continued to lave , as with the quiet undulations of summer lakes , the sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne ? The Byzantine court , which , merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that august throne , was drunk with excess of ...
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... continued to be Rome , for many a genera- tion she only of all the monarchies has feared no mortal hand " God and his Son except , Created thing nought valued she nor shunned . " That the possessor and wielder of such enormous - power ...
... continued to be Rome , for many a genera- tion she only of all the monarchies has feared no mortal hand " God and his Son except , Created thing nought valued she nor shunned . " That the possessor and wielder of such enormous - power ...
Side 28
... 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 .
... 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 .
Side 33
... a sprig of laurel which he bore in his mouth , could not be determined . The whole train , pursuers and pursued , continued their flight towards 3 THE CESARS . 33 Yet again we are reminded that it was the weakness ...
... a sprig of laurel which he bore in his mouth , could not be determined . The whole train , pursuers and pursued , continued their flight towards 3 THE CESARS . 33 Yet again we are reminded that it was the weakness ...
Side 34
... continued utterly undepressed by them . And if so much superstition as even this implies , must be taken to argue some little weakness , on the other hand let it not be forgotten , that this very weakness does but the more illustrate ...
... continued utterly undepressed by them . And if so much superstition as even this implies , must be taken to argue some little weakness , on the other hand let it not be forgotten , that this very weakness does but the more illustrate ...
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