De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... kesars , or empe- rors , are mere phantoms of royalty . The Cæsar of Western Rome - he only of all earthly potentates , past or to come , could be said to reign as a monarch , - that is , as a solitary king . He 8 THE CÆSARS .
... kesars , or empe- rors , are mere phantoms of royalty . The Cæsar of Western Rome - he only of all earthly potentates , past or to come , could be said to reign as a monarch , - that is , as a solitary king . He 8 THE CÆSARS .
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... reign . The story is narrated by Herodian , and the circumstances are these : A slave of noble qualities , and of mag- nificent person , having liberated himself from the degradations of bondage , determined to avenge his own . wrongs ...
... reign . The story is narrated by Herodian , and the circumstances are these : A slave of noble qualities , and of mag- nificent person , having liberated himself from the degradations of bondage , determined to avenge his own . wrongs ...
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... reign , as likely to be marked by no wide - spreading calamity . " Augustus , " said he , " was happy ; for in his reign occurred the slaughter of Varus and his legions . Tiberius was happy ; for in his occurred that glorious fall of ...
... reign , as likely to be marked by no wide - spreading calamity . " Augustus , " said he , " was happy ; for in his reign occurred the slaughter of Varus and his legions . Tiberius was happy ; for in his occurred that glorious fall of ...
Side 113
... reigns ( all three , taken conjunctly , having held the supreme power for no more than twelve months and twenty days ) ... reign Gibbon takes up his tale of the decline of the empire . And this classification would probably have prevailed ...
... reigns ( all three , taken conjunctly , having held the supreme power for no more than twelve months and twenty days ) ... reign Gibbon takes up his tale of the decline of the empire . And this classification would probably have prevailed ...
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... reign was em- phatically said to be bloodless . Finding his fever increase , he became sensible that he was dying ; and he ordered the golden statue of Prosperity , a household symbol of empire , to be transferred from his own bed- room ...
... reign was em- phatically said to be bloodless . Finding his fever increase , he became sensible that he was dying ; and he ordered the golden statue of Prosperity , a household symbol of empire , to be transferred from his own bed- room ...
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