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... empire . It is false to say , that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius ...
... empire . It is false to say , that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius ...
Side 8
... empires . " Peace , then , rhetoricians , false threnodists of false liberty ! hollow chanters over the ashes of a hollow republic ! Without Cæsar , we affirm a thousand times that there would have been no perfect Rome ; and , but for ...
... empires . " Peace , then , rhetoricians , false threnodists of false liberty ! hollow chanters over the ashes of a hollow republic ! Without Cæsar , we affirm a thousand times that there would have been no perfect Rome ; and , but for ...
Side 9
... empire , which embraced the whole bizeμevi . the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recog- nised by the muse of History- than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into question or made conditional ...
... empire , which embraced the whole bizeμevi . the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recog- nised by the muse of History- than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into question or made conditional ...
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... empire " rising to that giddy altitude an altitude which sufficed - to bring it within the ken of posterity to the sixtieth generation . Upon such a Power is measured by resistance . scale , if it were applied with skill , the relations ...
... empire " rising to that giddy altitude an altitude which sufficed - to bring it within the ken of posterity to the sixtieth generation . Upon such a Power is measured by resistance . scale , if it were applied with skill , the relations ...
Side 12
... Empires , or Monarchies . These are noticed in the Holy Scriptures ; and it is upon their warrant that men have supposed no fifth mon- archy or universal empire possible in an earthly sense ; but that , whenever such an empire arises ...
... Empires , or Monarchies . These are noticed in the Holy Scriptures ; and it is upon their warrant that men have supposed no fifth mon- archy or universal empire possible in an earthly sense ; but that , whenever such an empire arises ...
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De Quincey's Writings: Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men ..., Bind 1 Thomas De Quincey Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2006 |
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