De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 45
... discipline of 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 ...
... discipline of 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 ...
Side 54
... disciplined , and maintained , from his own private funds , a legion amounting , perhaps , to six or seven thousand men , who were bound by no sacrament of military obedience to the state , nor owed fealty to any auspices except those ...
... disciplined , and maintained , from his own private funds , a legion amounting , perhaps , to six or seven thousand men , who were bound by no sacrament of military obedience to the state , nor owed fealty to any auspices except those ...
Side 70
... discipline not less than by original constitution of mind , the very narrowest visual range . In no literature whatsoever are so few tolerable notices to bę found of any great truths in Psychology . Nor could this have been otherwise ...
... discipline not less than by original constitution of mind , the very narrowest visual range . In no literature whatsoever are so few tolerable notices to bę found of any great truths in Psychology . Nor could this have been otherwise ...
Side 125
... discipline , one part might be balanced against the other by an imperator standing in the centre of the whole . The rigor of the military sacramentum , or oath of allegiance , made it dangerous to offer the first overtures to rebellion ...
... discipline , one part might be balanced against the other by an imperator standing in the centre of the whole . The rigor of the military sacramentum , or oath of allegiance , made it dangerous to offer the first overtures to rebellion ...
Side 127
... discipline , and had been utterly ruined by the license of revolutionary times , and the bloodiest proscriptions , but had even been extensively changed in its very elements , and from the descend- ants of Romulus had been transmuted ...
... discipline , and had been utterly ruined by the license of revolutionary times , and the bloodiest proscriptions , but had even been extensively changed in its very elements , and from the descend- ants of Romulus had been transmuted ...
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