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... same spirit as that of China or the Birman em- pire ; or fashioned by anticipation , as one might think , on the practice of that Oriental Cham , who daily proclaims by sound of trumpet to the kings in the 10 THE CESARS .
... same spirit as that of China or the Birman em- pire ; or fashioned by anticipation , as one might think , on the practice of that Oriental Cham , who daily proclaims by sound of trumpet to the kings in the 10 THE CESARS .
Side 72
... practice ) as commilitones . It concerned his own security , to be jealous of encroachments on his power . But of his rank , and the honors which accompanied it , he seems to have been uniformly careless . Thus , he would never leave a ...
... practice ) as commilitones . It concerned his own security , to be jealous of encroachments on his power . But of his rank , and the honors which accompanied it , he seems to have been uniformly careless . Thus , he would never leave a ...
Side 74
... practice , however , he discontinued , or narrowed , as he advanced in years . Suetonius , who , as a true anecdote - monger , would solve every thing , and account for every change by some definite incident , charges this alteration in ...
... practice , however , he discontinued , or narrowed , as he advanced in years . Suetonius , who , as a true anecdote - monger , would solve every thing , and account for every change by some definite incident , charges this alteration in ...
Side 133
... practice , but not with the same result ; for to him , either from age or constitution , this very custom proved the original occasion of his last illness . Imitation , indeed , was a general principle of action with Hadrian , and the ...
... practice , but not with the same result ; for to him , either from age or constitution , this very custom proved the original occasion of his last illness . Imitation , indeed , was a general principle of action with Hadrian , and the ...
Side 137
... practice prevailing , in the great standing camps on the several frontiers and at all the military stations , of renewing as much as possible the image of distant Rome by the erection of long colonnades and piazzas — single , double ...
... practice prevailing , in the great standing camps on the several frontiers and at all the military stations , of renewing as much as possible the image of distant Rome by the erection of long colonnades and piazzas — single , double ...
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