De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne ? The Byzantine court , which , merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that august throne , was drunk with excess of pride , surrounded itself with elaborate expressions of a grandeur ...
... sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne ? The Byzantine court , which , merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that august throne , was drunk with excess of pride , surrounded itself with elaborate expressions of a grandeur ...
Side 11
... sacred majesty of the Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another heaven , and across the wilderness of fourteen centuries ! Splen- dor , thus transmitted ...
... sacred majesty of the Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another heaven , and across the wilderness of fourteen centuries ! Splen- dor , thus transmitted ...
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... sacred person , and the imperial family considered a " divina domus . " It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally upon hypocrisy . Undoubtedly the expressions of this feeling are sometimes gross and ...
... sacred person , and the imperial family considered a " divina domus . " It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally upon hypocrisy . Undoubtedly the expressions of this feeling are sometimes gross and ...
Side 20
... sacred fire лóμлve , was carried in ceremonial solemnity before him ; and every other circumstance of divine worship attended the emperor in his life- time.7 To this view of the imperial character and relations must be added one single ...
... sacred fire лóμлve , was carried in ceremonial solemnity before him ; and every other circumstance of divine worship attended the emperor in his life- time.7 To this view of the imperial character and relations must be added one single ...
Side 21
... sacred security and inviolability of the office , was the hazardous tenure of the individual . Nor did his dangers always arise from persons in the rank of competitors and rivals . Sometimes it menaced him in quarters which his eye had ...
... sacred security and inviolability of the office , was the hazardous tenure of the individual . Nor did his dangers always arise from persons in the rank of competitors and rivals . Sometimes it menaced him in quarters which his eye had ...
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De Quincey's Writings: Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men ..., Bind 1 Thomas De Quincey Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2006 |
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