De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... never yet been fully appreciated ; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique . There was but one Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of ancient or ...
... never yet been fully appreciated ; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique . There was but one Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of ancient or ...
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... never upon this earth were destined to be revived . Rome has not been repeated ; neither has Cæsar . Ubi Casar , ibi Roma maxim of Roman jurisprudence . And the same maxim may be translated into a wider meaning ; in which it becomes ...
... never upon this earth were destined to be revived . Rome has not been repeated ; neither has Cæsar . Ubi Casar , ibi Roma maxim of Roman jurisprudence . And the same maxim may be translated into a wider meaning ; in which it becomes ...
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... never been utterly stripped of all vestige of truth , but that every such mode of error has perhaps been designed as a process , and adapted by Providence to the case of those who were capable of admitting no more perfect shape of truth ...
... never been utterly stripped of all vestige of truth , but that every such mode of error has perhaps been designed as a process , and adapted by Providence to the case of those who were capable of admitting no more perfect shape of truth ...
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... did his dangers always arise from persons in the rank of competitors and rivals . Sometimes it menaced him in quarters which his eye had never penetrated , and from enemies too obscure to have reached his ear THE CESARS . 21.
... did his dangers always arise from persons in the rank of competitors and rivals . Sometimes it menaced him in quarters which his eye had never penetrated , and from enemies too obscure to have reached his ear THE CESARS . 21.
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Thomas De Quincey. CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar has perhaps never been worse appreciated than by him who in one sense described it best- that is , with most force and elo- quence wherever he really did comprehend it . This ...
Thomas De Quincey. CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar has perhaps never been worse appreciated than by him who in one sense described it best- that is , with most force and elo- quence wherever he really did comprehend it . This ...
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