De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 15
... existing to - day , forgotten to - morrow and abolished by a stroke of the pen , or a trick of diplomacy . Russia , again , a mighty empire , as respects the simple grandeur of magnitude , builds her power upon sterility . She has it in ...
... existing to - day , forgotten to - morrow and abolished by a stroke of the pen , or a trick of diplomacy . Russia , again , a mighty empire , as respects the simple grandeur of magnitude , builds her power upon sterility . She has it in ...
Side 53
... existing government . He relied , it seems , on his own personal superiority for raising him to the head of affairs eventually , let who would take the nominal lead at first . To the same result , it will be found , tended the vast ...
... existing government . He relied , it seems , on his own personal superiority for raising him to the head of affairs eventually , let who would take the nominal lead at first . To the same result , it will be found , tended the vast ...
Side 139
... existing beneficiaries had gradually adjusted themselves . What these might be , and to what further results they might tend , was a matter of moment doubtless to the empire . But the empire was strong ; if its motive energy was ...
... existing beneficiaries had gradually adjusted themselves . What these might be , and to what further results they might tend , was a matter of moment doubtless to the empire . But the empire was strong ; if its motive energy was ...
Side 142
... the social system as then existing amongst his subjects . Above all , and out of his own private purse , he supported the heraldries of his dominions— --- - — ― the peerage , senatorial or prætorian , and the 142 THE CESARS .
... the social system as then existing amongst his subjects . Above all , and out of his own private purse , he supported the heraldries of his dominions— --- - — ― the peerage , senatorial or prætorian , and the 142 THE CESARS .
Side 165
... existing prerogative , were , as respected the temper which dictated them , no more than everyday manifes- tations of the emperor's perpetual benignity . Fortu- nately for Marcus , the indestructible privilege of the divina domus ...
... existing prerogative , were , as respected the temper which dictated them , no more than everyday manifes- tations of the emperor's perpetual benignity . Fortu- nately for Marcus , the indestructible privilege of the divina domus ...
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