De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... mode of natural wealth , within her own ring- fence , that since that era no land , no part and parcel of the Roman empire , has ever risen into strength and opulence , except where unusual artificial industry has availed to counteract ...
... mode of natural wealth , within her own ring- fence , that since that era no land , no part and parcel of the Roman empire , has ever risen into strength and opulence , except where unusual artificial industry has availed to counteract ...
Side 17
... mode of strength , with absolute immunity from all kinds and degrees of weakness . It ought not , therefore , to surprise us that the emperor , as the depositary of this charmed power , should have been looked upon as a sacred person ...
... mode of strength , with absolute immunity from all kinds and degrees of weakness . It ought not , therefore , to surprise us that the emperor , as the depositary of this charmed power , should have been looked upon as a sacred person ...
Side 18
... modes of authority , must be invested by all minds alike with some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the ... mode of error has perhaps been designed as a process , and adapted by Providence to the case of those who were ...
... modes of authority , must be invested by all minds alike with some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the ... mode of error has perhaps been designed as a process , and adapted by Providence to the case of those who were ...
Side 26
... mode of history . The six writers , whose sketches are collected under the general title of the Augustan History , followed in the same track . Though full of entertainment , and of the most curious researches , they are all of them ...
... mode of history . The six writers , whose sketches are collected under the general title of the Augustan History , followed in the same track . Though full of entertainment , and of the most curious researches , they are all of them ...
Side 32
... mode of his own . In his very infirmi- ties Cæsar manifested his greatness : his very little- nesses were noble . " Nec licuit populis parvum te , Nile , videre . " : That he placed some confidence in dreams , for in- stance , is ...
... mode of his own . In his very infirmi- ties Cæsar manifested his greatness : his very little- nesses were noble . " Nec licuit populis parvum te , Nile , videre . " : That he placed some confidence in dreams , for in- stance , is ...
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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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