De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... military force which put Rome in pos session of this inordinate power , was certainly in some respects artificial ; but the power itself was natural , and not subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the commercial empires of our days ...
... military force which put Rome in pos session of this inordinate power , was certainly in some respects artificial ; but the power itself was natural , and not subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the commercial empires of our days ...
Side 40
... military superior . In the course of this harangue , Cæsar often raised his left hand with Demosthenic action , and once or twice he drew off the ring , which every Roman gentleman simply as such wore as the inseparable adjunct and ...
... military superior . In the course of this harangue , Cæsar often raised his left hand with Demosthenic action , and once or twice he drew off the ring , which every Roman gentleman simply as such wore as the inseparable adjunct and ...
Side 48
... military harangue to the following effect : " Know that within a few days the king will come up with us , bringing with him sixty thousand legionaries , thirty thousand cavalry , one hundred thousand light troops , besides three hundred ...
... military harangue to the following effect : " Know that within a few days the king will come up with us , bringing with him sixty thousand legionaries , thirty thousand cavalry , one hundred thousand light troops , besides three hundred ...
Side 54
... military obedience to the state , nor owed fealty to any auspices except those of Cæsar . This legion , from the fashion of their crested helmets , which resembled the crested heads of a small bird of the lark species , received the ...
... military obedience to the state , nor owed fealty to any auspices except those of Cæsar . This legion , from the fashion of their crested helmets , which resembled the crested heads of a small bird of the lark species , received the ...
Side 66
... military struggle for the vacant seat of empire , and in the mean time to maintain a coequal rank with the leaders in the state , by those arts and resources in which he was superior to his competitors . His place in the favor of Caius ...
... military struggle for the vacant seat of empire , and in the mean time to maintain a coequal rank with the leaders in the state , by those arts and resources in which he was superior to his competitors . His place in the favor of Caius ...
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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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