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... habits and polished taste , the patron of the fine arts in a degree transcending all example of his own or the previous age , and as a man of general literature so much beyond his contemporaries , except Cicero , that he looked down ...
... habits and polished taste , the patron of the fine arts in a degree transcending all example of his own or the previous age , and as a man of general literature so much beyond his contemporaries , except Cicero , that he looked down ...
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... habit of say- ing , " Sylla potuit , ego non potero ? " And the fact was , that if , from the death of Sylla , Rome recovered some transient show of constitutional integrity , that happened not by any lingering virtue that remained in ...
... habit of say- ing , " Sylla potuit , ego non potero ? " And the fact was , that if , from the death of Sylla , Rome recovered some transient show of constitutional integrity , that happened not by any lingering virtue that remained in ...
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... habits of his private life , his tastes , and personal peculiari- ties . In person , he was tall , fair , and of limbs distinguished for their elegant proportions and gracility . His eyes were black and piercing . These circumstances ...
... habits of his private life , his tastes , and personal peculiari- ties . In person , he was tall , fair , and of limbs distinguished for their elegant proportions and gracility . His eyes were black and piercing . These circumstances ...
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... habits , and in all parts of his life sedulously attentive to elegance of personal appearance . The length of journeys which he accomplished within a given time , appears even to us at this day , and might well there- fore appear to his ...
... habits , and in all parts of his life sedulously attentive to elegance of personal appearance . The length of journeys which he accomplished within a given time , appears even to us at this day , and might well there- fore appear to his ...
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... habits of old age , but certainly not the cause of so entire a revolution in his mode of living . It might seem to throw some doubt , if not upon the fact , yet at least upon the sincerity , of his civism , that undoubtedly Augustus ...
... habits of old age , but certainly not the cause of so entire a revolution in his mode of living . It might seem to throw some doubt , if not upon the fact , yet at least upon the sincerity , of his civism , that undoubtedly Augustus ...
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