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Side 67
... necessity of defend- ing his supreme station by arms . To have left it unasserted , when once solemnly created in his favor by a reversionary title , would have been deliberately to resign it . This would have been a confession of ...
... necessity of defend- ing his supreme station by arms . To have left it unasserted , when once solemnly created in his favor by a reversionary title , would have been deliberately to resign it . This would have been a confession of ...
Side 80
... necessity of applying some palliation to the case , we have no doubt that Augustus would devise the scheme of laying some distant king under such obligations to fidelity as would suffice to stand the first shock of misfortune . Such a ...
... necessity of applying some palliation to the case , we have no doubt that Augustus would devise the scheme of laying some distant king under such obligations to fidelity as would suffice to stand the first shock of misfortune . Such a ...
Side 100
... necessity for leaving Naples ; and he returned to Rome , as the historian says , prætrepidus ; by which word , however , according to its genuine classical acceptation , we apprehend is not meant that he was highly alarmed , but only ...
... necessity for leaving Naples ; and he returned to Rome , as the historian says , prætrepidus ; by which word , however , according to its genuine classical acceptation , we apprehend is not meant that he was highly alarmed , but only ...
Side 119
... necessity fell to the ground . Those who were obliged to reject the ridiculous legends which invested the whole of their Pantheon , together with the fabulous adjudgers of future punishments , could not but dismiss the punish- ments ...
... necessity fell to the ground . Those who were obliged to reject the ridiculous legends which invested the whole of their Pantheon , together with the fabulous adjudgers of future punishments , could not but dismiss the punish- ments ...
Side 184
... necessity of bloodshed , extinguished under this monoto- nous cloud of cruel jealousy and everlasting panic every characteristic feature of genial human nature , that would else have emerged through so long a train of princes . There is ...
... necessity of bloodshed , extinguished under this monoto- nous cloud of cruel jealousy and everlasting panic every characteristic feature of genial human nature , that would else have emerged through so long a train of princes . There 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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