De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... raise a brief uproar in his little native archipelago , but too feeble to reach the shores of Europe by an echo or to ascend by so much as an infantine susurrus to the ears of the British Neptune . Parthia , it is true , might pretend ...
... raise a brief uproar in his little native archipelago , but too feeble to reach the shores of Europe by an echo or to ascend by so much as an infantine susurrus to the ears of the British Neptune . Parthia , it is true , might pretend ...
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... raised , by means of a mercenary army , as to the claims of the particular individual who at any time filled the office , the very sanctity and privilege of the character with which he was clothed might actually be turned against ...
... raised , by means of a mercenary army , as to the claims of the particular individual who at any time filled the office , the very sanctity and privilege of the character with which he was clothed might actually be turned against ...
Side 38
... raised the stand- ard of revolt , put his foot upon the neck of the invincible republic which had humbled all the kings of the earth , and founded an empire which was to last for a thousand and half a thousand years . In what manner ...
... raised the stand- ard of revolt , put his foot upon the neck of the invincible republic which had humbled all the kings of the earth , and founded an empire which was to last for a thousand and half a thousand years . In what manner ...
Side 40
... raised his left hand with Demosthenic action , and once or twice he drew off the ring , which every Roman gentleman simply as such wore as the inseparable adjunct and symbol of his rank . By this action he wished to give emphasis to the ...
... raised his left hand with Demosthenic action , and once or twice he drew off the ring , which every Roman gentleman simply as such wore as the inseparable adjunct and symbol of his rank . By this action he wished to give emphasis to the ...
Side 51
... raising and maintaining a powerful body of par- tisans , both in Rome and elsewhere . Whosoever indeed will take the trouble to investigate the progress of Cæsar's ambition , from such materials as even yet remain , may satisfy himself ...
... raising and maintaining a powerful body of par- tisans , both in Rome and elsewhere . Whosoever indeed will take the trouble to investigate the progress of Cæsar's ambition , from such materials as even yet remain , may satisfy himself ...
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