De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... 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 ; even the heads of such superstitions ( the Dalai Lama , for instance ) may not ...
... 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 ; even the heads of such superstitions ( the Dalai Lama , for instance ) may not ...
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... we can undertake that the memorials which we shall bring forward , may be looked upon as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book . CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar has perhaps 26 THE CESARS .
... we can undertake that the memorials which we shall bring forward , may be looked upon as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book . CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar has perhaps 26 THE CESARS .
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... , imperturbable , and more perhaps than any one man recorded in history capable of justi- fying the bold illustration of that character in Horace , “ Si fractus illabatur orbis , impavidum ferient ruinæ ” CHAPTER I. ...
... , imperturbable , and more perhaps than any one man recorded in history capable of justi- fying the bold illustration of that character in Horace , “ Si fractus illabatur orbis , impavidum ferient ruinæ ” CHAPTER I. ...
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... perhaps of the wide interval which , in Cæsar's age , had begun to separate the Roman nobility from the hungry and venal populace who were daily put up to sale , and bought by the highest bidder , manifested itself in the increasing ...
... perhaps of the wide interval which , in Cæsar's age , had begun to separate the Roman nobility from the hungry and venal populace who were daily put up to sale , and bought by the highest bidder , manifested itself in the increasing ...
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... perhaps , have made him so in any age , and apart from the circumstances of his per- sonal history . This natural tendency in him would doubtless receive a further bias in the same direction from the office of Pontifex Maximus , which ...
... perhaps , have made him so in any age , and apart from the circumstances of his per- sonal history . This natural tendency in him would doubtless receive a further bias in the same direction from the office of Pontifex Maximus , which ...
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