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... final Romulus , completed for Rome that which the rape under Romulus , her 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 ...
... final Romulus , completed for Rome that which the rape under Romulus , her 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 ...
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... final details were arranged ; and those also would have prospered but for a trifling accident . The season was one of general carnival at Rome ; and , by the help of those disguises which the license of this festal time allowed , the ...
... final details were arranged ; and those also would have prospered but for a trifling accident . The season was one of general carnival at Rome ; and , by the help of those disguises which the license of this festal time allowed , the ...
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... final step ) which placed him in arms against the state , it happened that his head- quarters were at some distance from the little river Rubicon , which formed the boundary of his province . With his usual caution , that no news of his ...
... final step ) which placed him in arms against the state , it happened that his head- quarters were at some distance from the little river Rubicon , which formed the boundary of his province . With his usual caution , that no news of his ...
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... forestall the victory of an antagonist , or to avenge their own defeat , it was not at all impossible that a body of incensed competitors might intercept his final triumph by assassination . For this danger 44 THE CESARS .
... forestall the victory of an antagonist , or to avenge their own defeat , it was not at all impossible that a body of incensed competitors might intercept his final triumph by assassination . For this danger 44 THE CESARS .
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Thomas De Quincey. intercept his final triumph by assassination . For this danger , however , he had no leisure in his thoughts of consolation ; the sole danger which he contemplated , or supposed his mother to contemplate , was the ...
Thomas De Quincey. intercept his final triumph by assassination . For this danger , however , he had no leisure in his thoughts of consolation ; the sole danger which he contemplated , or supposed his mother to contemplate , was the ...
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