De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... succession , and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon all that its predecessors in that career had ...
... succession , and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon all that its predecessors in that career had ...
Side 38
... succession to this incident of epic dignity , which has its only parallel by the way in the case of Vasco de Gama , ( according to the narrative of Ca- moens , ) when met and confronted by a sea phantom , whilst attempting to double the ...
... succession to this incident of epic dignity , which has its only parallel by the way in the case of Vasco de Gama , ( according to the narrative of Ca- moens , ) when met and confronted by a sea phantom , whilst attempting to double the ...
Side 79
... succession of hindrances in the way of his conqueror , argues some essential defect of system . Under our modern policy , military power though it may be the growth of one man's life- -soon takes root ; a succession of campaigns is ...
... succession of hindrances in the way of his conqueror , argues some essential defect of system . Under our modern policy , military power though it may be the growth of one man's life- -soon takes root ; a succession of campaigns is ...
Side 80
Thomas De Quincey. root ; a succession of campaigns is required for its extirpation ; and it revolves backwards to its final extinction through all the stages by which originally it grew . On the Roman system this was mainly impossible ...
Thomas De Quincey. root ; a succession of campaigns is required for its extirpation ; and it revolves backwards to its final extinction through all the stages by which originally it grew . On the Roman system this was mainly impossible ...
Side 112
... succession of weeks that same victorious rebel , the Emperor Galba , at whose feet Nero had been self - immolated , was laid a murdered corpse in the same identical cell which had witnessed the lingering agonies of his unhappy victim ...
... succession of weeks that same victorious rebel , the Emperor Galba , at whose feet Nero had been self - immolated , was laid a murdered corpse in the same identical cell which had witnessed the lingering agonies of his unhappy victim ...
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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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