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Thomas De Quincey. - escort were blown out , so that the whole party lost their road , having probably at first intentionally devi- ated from the main route , and wandered about through the whole night , until the early dawn enabled them ...
Thomas De Quincey. - escort were blown out , so that the whole party lost their road , having probably at first intentionally devi- ated from the main route , and wandered about through the whole night , until the early dawn enabled them ...
Side 37
... party , it happened that there were a few Roman trumpeters . From one of these , the phantom , rising as they advanced nearer , suddenly caught a trumpet , and blowing through it a blast of superhuman strength , plunged into the Rubicon ...
... party , it happened that there were a few Roman trumpeters . From one of these , the phantom , rising as they advanced nearer , suddenly caught a trumpet , and blowing through it a blast of superhuman strength , plunged into the Rubicon ...
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... party , and complaining that stratagems , which they might practise with impunity , were denied to him and his , happened to point the moral of his complaint , by alleging the old adage , that one man might steal a horse with more hope ...
... party , and complaining that stratagems , which they might practise with impunity , were denied to him and his , happened to point the moral of his complaint , by alleging the old adage , that one man might steal a horse with more hope ...
Side 53
... party to at least two other conspiracies . There was even a fourth , meditated by Crassus , which Cæsar so far encouraged as to undertake a journey to Rome from a very distant quarter , merely with a view to such chances as it might ...
... party to at least two other conspiracies . There was even a fourth , meditated by Crassus , which Cæsar so far encouraged as to undertake a journey to Rome from a very distant quarter , merely with a view to such chances as it might ...
Side 65
... party re- proaches of Anthony . Certainly he was utterly unfur- nished by nature with those endowments which seemed to be indispensable in a successor to the power of the great Dictator . But exactly in these deficiencies , and in ...
... party re- proaches of Anthony . Certainly he was utterly unfur- nished by nature with those endowments which seemed to be indispensable in a successor to the power of the great Dictator . But exactly in these deficiencies , and in ...
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