De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 17
... imperial family considered a " divina domus . " It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally upon hypocrisy . Undoubtedly the expressions of this feeling are sometimes gross and overcharged , as we find ...
... imperial family considered a " divina domus . " It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally upon hypocrisy . Undoubtedly the expressions of this feeling are sometimes gross and overcharged , as we find ...
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... imperial character and relations must be added one single circumstance , which in some measure altered the whole for the individual who happened to fill the office . The emperor de facto might be viewed under two aspects : there was the ...
... imperial character and relations must be added one single circumstance , which in some measure altered the whole for the individual who happened to fill the office . The emperor de facto might be viewed under two aspects : there was the ...
Side 21
... imperial pursuit . If he went down to the sea , there he met the emperor : if he took the wings of the morning , and fled to the uttermost parts of the earth , there also was the emperor or his lieutenants . But the same omnipres- ence ...
... imperial pursuit . If he went down to the sea , there he met the emperor : if he took the wings of the morning , and fled to the uttermost parts of the earth , there also was the emperor or his lieutenants . But the same omnipres- ence ...
Side 22
... imperial officers commanding large detachments of troops ; and at length grew of consequence sufficient to draw upon himself the emperor's eye , and the honor of his personal displeasure . In high wrath and disdain at the insults ...
... imperial officers commanding large detachments of troops ; and at length grew of consequence sufficient to draw upon himself the emperor's eye , and the honor of his personal displeasure . In high wrath and disdain at the insults ...
Side 24
... imperial sentence of proscrip- tion against himself . - --- Such , amidst his superhuman grandeur and conse- crated powers of the Roman emperor's office , were the extraordinary perils which menaced the individual , and the peculiar 24 ...
... imperial sentence of proscrip- tion against himself . - --- Such , amidst his superhuman grandeur and conse- crated powers of the Roman emperor's office , were the extraordinary perils which menaced the individual , and the peculiar 24 ...
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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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