De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 16
... hand of man , Rome slept for ages in absolute security . She could suffer only by the wrath of Providence ; and , so long as she continued to be Rome , for many a genera- tion she only of all the monarchies has feared no mortal hand ...
... hand of man , Rome slept for ages in absolute security . She could suffer only by the wrath of Providence ; and , so long as she continued to be Rome , for many a genera- tion she only of all the monarchies has feared no mortal hand ...
Side 17
... hands has either been extensive , but wanting in intensity or intense , but wanting in extent or , thirdly , liable to permanent control and hazard from some antagonist power com . mensurate with itself . But the Roman power , in its ...
... hands has either been extensive , but wanting in intensity or intense , but wanting in extent or , thirdly , liable to permanent control and hazard from some antagonist power com . mensurate with itself . But the Roman power , in its ...
Side 33
... hand within the right hand of Jove . It would seem that perhaps some obscure and half - formed image floated in his mind , of the eagle , as the king of birds ; secondly , as the tutelary emblem under which his con- quering legions had ...
... hand within the right hand of Jove . It would seem that perhaps some obscure and half - formed image floated in his mind , of the eagle , as the king of birds ; secondly , as the tutelary emblem under which his con- quering legions had ...
Side 34
... so much superstition as even this implies , must be taken to argue some little weakness , on the other hand let it not be forgotten , that this very weakness does but the more illustrate the unusual force of mind 34 THE CESARS .
... so much superstition as even this implies , must be taken to argue some little weakness , on the other hand let it not be forgotten , that this very weakness does but the more illustrate the unusual force of mind 34 THE CESARS .
Side 36
... hands , since the further bank lay within the terri- tory of the Republic , ipso facto proclaimed any Roman a rebel and a traitor . No man , the firmest or the most obtuse , could be otherwise than deeply agitated , when looking down ...
... hands , since the further bank lay within the terri- tory of the Republic , ipso facto proclaimed any Roman a rebel and a traitor . No man , the firmest or the most obtuse , could be otherwise than deeply agitated , when looking down ...
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