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... earliest Cæsar , had prosperously begun . And thus by one godlike man was a nation - city matured ; and from the ever- lasting and nameless 3 city was a man produced- capable of taming her indomitable nature , and of forcing her to ...
... earliest Cæsar , had prosperously begun . And thus by one godlike man was a nation - city matured ; and from the ever- lasting and nameless 3 city was a man produced- capable of taming her indomitable nature , and of forcing her to ...
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... 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 .
... 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 .
Side 13
... earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were the men of Macedon ; and neither one tribe nor the other found any adequate resistance in the luxu- rious occupants of Babylonia . We ...
... earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were the men of Macedon ; and neither one tribe nor the other found any adequate resistance in the luxu- rious occupants of Babylonia . We ...
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... Cæsars com- mences the first page of what in modern times we understand by anecdotes . Suetonius is the earliest writer in that department of biography ; so far as we know , he may be held first to have devised THE CÆSARS . 25.
... Cæsars com- mences the first page of what in modern times we understand by anecdotes . Suetonius is the earliest writer in that department of biography ; so far as we know , he may be held first to have devised THE CÆSARS . 25.
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... early stage of his public career . This office , by letting him too much behind the curtain , and exposing too entirely the base machinery of ropes and pulleys , which sustained the miserable jugglery played off upon the popular ...
... early stage of his public career . This office , by letting him too much behind the curtain , and exposing too entirely the base machinery of ropes and pulleys , which sustained the miserable jugglery played off upon the popular ...
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