De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... favors for the noblest of her wooers , and we may plead the justification of Falconbridge for his mother's trangression with the lion - hearted king- such a sin was self - ennobled . Did Julius deflower Rome ? Then , by that ...
... favors for the noblest of her wooers , and we may plead the justification of Falconbridge for his mother's trangression with the lion - hearted king- such a sin was self - ennobled . Did Julius deflower Rome ? Then , by that ...
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... favor . At one time of his life , when appointed to a foreign office , so numerous and so clamorous were his creditors , that he could not have left Rome on his -- public duties , had not Crassus come forward with 50 THE CESARS .
... favor . At one time of his life , when appointed to a foreign office , so numerous and so clamorous were his creditors , that he could not have left Rome on his -- public duties , had not Crassus come forward with 50 THE CESARS .
Side 62
... favor , as against any single com- petitor ; and there is no doubt whatsoever , that even amongst his own countrymen , and his own contempo- raries , the same verdict would have been returned , had it been collected upon the famous ...
... favor , as against any single com- petitor ; and there is no doubt whatsoever , that even amongst his own countrymen , and his own contempo- raries , the same verdict would have been returned , had it been collected upon the famous ...
Side 63
... and secondly , for what it concealed . Of his grand - uncle , the first Cæsar , a tradition survives — that of all the distinctions created in his favor , either by the senate ― or the people , he put most value upon CHAPTER II. ...
... and secondly , for what it concealed . Of his grand - uncle , the first Cæsar , a tradition survives — that of all the distinctions created in his favor , either by the senate ― or the people , he put most value upon CHAPTER II. ...
Side 65
... favor . From the inheritance of the Julian estates and family honors , he would have been trained to mount , as from a stepping - stone , to the inheritance of the Julian power and political station ; and the Roman people would have ...
... favor . From the inheritance of the Julian estates and family honors , he would have been trained to mount , as from a stepping - stone , to the inheritance of the Julian power and political station ; and the Roman people would have ...
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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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