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... fears and anxieties , in religious influences . A man of the world is but another designation for a man indis- posed to religious awe or contemplative enthusiasm . - Still it is a doctrine which we cherish that grandeur THE CESARS . 31.
... fears and anxieties , in religious influences . A man of the world is but another designation for a man indis- posed to religious awe or contemplative enthusiasm . - Still it is a doctrine which we cherish that grandeur THE CESARS . 31.
Side 43
... fear and feminine anxieties as to one whose aspiring spirit carried him but too prematurely into the fields of adventurous honor . One slight and evanescent sketch of the rela ions which subsisted between Cæsar and his mother , caught ...
... fear and feminine anxieties as to one whose aspiring spirit carried him but too prematurely into the fields of adventurous honor . One slight and evanescent sketch of the rela ions which subsisted between Cæsar and his mother , caught ...
Side 44
... fears . On the contrary , to any but a Roman mother his valedictory words , taken in connection with . the known determination of his character , were of a nature to consummate her depression , as they tended to confirm the very worst ...
... fears . On the contrary , to any but a Roman mother his valedictory words , taken in connection with . the known determination of his character , were of a nature to consummate her depression , as they tended to confirm the very worst ...
Side 45
... fear nothing ; for that without doubt he would return with victory , and with the ensigns of the dignity he sought , or would return a corpse . Early indeed did Cæsar's trials commence ; and it is probable , that , had not the death of ...
... fear nothing ; for that without doubt he would return with victory , and with the ensigns of the dignity he sought , or would return a corpse . Early indeed did Cæsar's trials commence ; and it is probable , that , had not the death of ...
Side 54
... fear of coercion or control , he persevered steadily in the same plan of providing for the day when he might need assistance , not from the state , but against the state . For amongst the private anecdotes which came to light under the ...
... fear of coercion or control , he persevered steadily in the same plan of providing for the day when he might need assistance , not from the state , but against the state . For amongst the private anecdotes which came to light under the ...
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