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... MEMORY AND HOPE . A BOOK OF POEMS , RE- FERRING TO CHILDHOOD . In one volume , 8vo , price $ 2.00 . REJECTED ADDRESSES . By HORACE and JAMES SMITH . In one volume , 16mo , price 50 cents . ALDERBROOK . BY FANNY FORESTER . In two vols ...
... MEMORY AND HOPE . A BOOK OF POEMS , RE- FERRING TO CHILDHOOD . In one volume , 8vo , price $ 2.00 . REJECTED ADDRESSES . By HORACE and JAMES SMITH . In one volume , 16mo , price 50 cents . ALDERBROOK . BY FANNY FORESTER . In two vols ...
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... memory and the prudential tradition of this plan survived in the imperial family so long as itself survived . Amongst other anecdotes of the same tendency , two are recorded of Nero , the emperor in whom expired the line of the original ...
... memory and the prudential tradition of this plan survived in the imperial family so long as itself survived . Amongst other anecdotes of the same tendency , two are recorded of Nero , the emperor in whom expired the line of the original ...
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... memory , it may be well to men- tion . The custom was , in canvassing the citizens of Rome , that the candidate should address every voter by his name ; it was a fiction of republican etiquette , that every man participating in the ...
... memory , it may be well to men- tion . The custom was , in canvassing the citizens of Rome , that the candidate should address every voter by his name ; it was a fiction of republican etiquette , that every man participating in the ...
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... memory , that of names and of persons ; and to estimate the immensity of the effort , we must recollect that the number of voters often far exceeded one quarter of a million . The very same trial of memory he undertook with respect to ...
... memory , that of names and of persons ; and to estimate the immensity of the effort , we must recollect that the number of voters often far exceeded one quarter of a million . The very same trial of memory he undertook with respect to ...
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... memory , and one which is open to no doubt whatever , is excessive and extravagant luxury - excessive in degree , extravagant and even ludicrous in its forms . For example , he constructed a sort of bed or sofa protected from insects by ...
... memory , and one which is open to no doubt whatever , is excessive and extravagant luxury - excessive in degree , extravagant and even ludicrous in its forms . For example , he constructed a sort of bed or sofa protected from insects by ...
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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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absolute Alexander Alexander Severus amongst ancient anecdotes army assassination Augustus Aurelian Cæsar Caligula Caracalla Cassius character Christian Cicero circumstances civil Commodus danger death Decius defeated Dioclesian discipline doubtless effect Emilianus empire enemy express eyes fact father favor fear frontier Galerius Gallienus Gaul gladiators Goths grandeur habits Hadrian hand happened historians honors human nature imperial instance interest Julius Julius Cæsar king legions less luxury Macrinus Marcomanni Marcus Aurelius Maximin means memory military mode moral mother murder necessity Nero never NOTE notice Numerian occasion original palace Parthia party perhaps Persian Philip the Arab philosopher popular possible prætorian price 75 cents prince prosperity provinces purpose rank reign remarkable republic republican rival Roman emperor Rome sacred says seems senate sense Severus soldier spirit succession Suetonius supposed throne Tiberius tion Trajan troops true vast volume whilst whole