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... mother's trangression with the lion - hearted king- such a sin was self - ennobled . Did Julius deflower Rome ? Then , by that consummation , he caused her to fulfill the func- tions of her nature ; he compelled her to exchange the ...
... mother's trangression with the lion - hearted king- such a sin was self - ennobled . Did Julius deflower Rome ? Then , by that consummation , he caused her to fulfill the func- tions of her nature ; he compelled her to exchange the ...
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... Mother of empires . " Peace , then , rhetoricians , false threnodists of false liberty ! hollow chanters over the ashes of a hollow republic ! Without Cæsar , we affirm a thousand times that there would have been no perfect Rome ; and ...
... Mother of empires . " Peace , then , rhetoricians , false threnodists of false liberty ! hollow chanters over the ashes of a hollow republic ! Without Cæsar , we affirm a thousand times that there would have been no perfect Rome ; and ...
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... mothers . And of Casar's mother , though little is recorded , and that little incidentally , this much at least , we learn that , if she looked down upon him with maternal pride and delight , she loo ' ed up to him with female ambition ...
... mothers . And of Casar's mother , though little is recorded , and that little incidentally , this much at least , we learn that , if she looked down upon him with maternal pride and delight , she loo ' ed up to him with female ambition ...
Side 44
... mother of his , we learn from the few words which survive of their conversation . He addressed to her no language that could tranquillize her fears . On the contrary , to any but a Roman mother his valedictory words , taken in ...
... mother of his , we learn from the few words which survive of their conversation . He addressed to her no language that could tranquillize her fears . On the contrary , to any but a Roman mother his valedictory words , taken in ...
Side 45
... mother to contemplate , was the danger of defeat , and for that he reserved his consolations . He bade her fear nothing ; for that without doubt he would return with victory , and with the ensigns of the dignity he sought , or would ...
... mother to contemplate , was the danger of defeat , and for that he reserved his consolations . He bade her fear nothing ; for that without doubt he would return with victory , and with the ensigns of the dignity he sought , or would ...
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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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