De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 9
... offered on the lowest step of his throne , and scarcely known to him but as objects of disdain . But these feudatories could no more break the unity of his empire , which embraced the whole bizeμevi . the total habitable world as then ...
... offered on the lowest step of his throne , and scarcely known to him but as objects of disdain . But these feudatories could no more break the unity of his empire , which embraced the whole bizeμevi . the total habitable world as then ...
Side 22
... upon himself the emperor's eye , and the honor of his personal displeasure . In high wrath and disdain at the insults offered to his eagles by this fugitive slave , Commodus fulminated against him such an edict 22 THE CÆSARS .
... upon himself the emperor's eye , and the honor of his personal displeasure . In high wrath and disdain at the insults offered to his eagles by this fugitive slave , Commodus fulminated against him such an edict 22 THE CÆSARS .
Side 81
... protector in the king of the Parthians . Pos- sibly , had an opportunity offered for searching the Parthian chancery , some treaty would have been found binding 6 THE CESARS . 81 having a contingent interest in a kinsman's prosperity. ...
... protector in the king of the Parthians . Pos- sibly , had an opportunity offered for searching the Parthian chancery , some treaty would have been found binding 6 THE CESARS . 81 having a contingent interest in a kinsman's prosperity. ...
Side 100
... offering to stake the truth of all the other charges against himself upon the accuracy of this in particular . So little even in this instance was he alive to the true point of the insult ; not thinking it any disgrace that a Roman ...
... offering to stake the truth of all the other charges against himself upon the accuracy of this in particular . So little even in this instance was he alive to the true point of the insult ; not thinking it any disgrace that a Roman ...
Side 105
... offered to him by his libertus Phaon , in his own rural villa , about four miles distant from Rome . The offer was accepted ; and the emperor , without further pre- paration than that of throwing over his person a short mantle of a ...
... offered to him by his libertus Phaon , in his own rural villa , about four miles distant from Rome . The offer was accepted ; and the emperor , without further pre- paration than that of throwing over his person a short mantle of a ...
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