De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... sense ; but that , whenever such an empire arises , it will have Christ for its head ; in other words , that no fifth monarchia can take place until Christianity shall have swallowed up all other forms of religion , and shall have ...
... sense ; but that , whenever such an empire arises , it will have Christ for its head ; in other words , that no fifth monarchia can take place until Christianity shall have swallowed up all other forms of religion , and shall have ...
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... sense described it best- that is , with most force and elo- quence wherever he really did comprehend it . This was Lucan , who has nowhere exhibited more brilliant rhetoric , nor wandered more from the truth , than in the contrasted ...
... sense described it best- that is , with most force and elo- quence wherever he really did comprehend it . This was Lucan , who has nowhere exhibited more brilliant rhetoric , nor wandered more from the truth , than in the contrasted ...
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... sense , Julius Cæsar was naturally a despiser of superstition . Mere strength of understanding would , perhaps , have made him so in any age , and apart from the circumstances of his per- sonal history . This natural tendency in him ...
... sense , Julius Cæsar was naturally a despiser of superstition . Mere strength of understanding would , perhaps , have made him so in any age , and apart from the circumstances of his per- sonal history . This natural tendency in him ...
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... as though in some exclusive sense , or with a peculiar emphasis , due to him . His taste was much simpler , chaster , and dis- inclined to the florid and ornamental , than that of Cicero . So far he would , in that condition 60 THE CESARS .
... as though in some exclusive sense , or with a peculiar emphasis , due to him . His taste was much simpler , chaster , and dis- inclined to the florid and ornamental , than that of Cicero . So far he would , in that condition 60 THE CESARS .
Side 61
... sense of true dig- nity . Rightly conceiving that every thing patriotic was dignified , and that to illustrate or polish his native language , was a service of real patriotism , he composed a work on the grammar and orthoepy of the ...
... sense of true dig- nity . Rightly conceiving that every thing patriotic was dignified , and that to illustrate or polish his native language , was a service of real patriotism , he composed a work on the grammar and orthoepy of the ...
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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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