De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... throne , and scarcely known to him but as objects of disdain . But these feudatories could no more break the unity of his empire , which embraced the whole bizeμevi . the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recog ...
... throne , and scarcely known to him but as objects of disdain . But these feudatories could no more break the unity of his empire , which embraced the whole bizeμevi . the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recog ...
Side 10
... 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 beyond what mortal eyes were supposed ...
... 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 beyond what mortal eyes were supposed ...
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... 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 , thus sustained , and thus ...
... 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 , thus sustained , and thus ...
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... throne reposed . The military force which put Rome in pos session of this inordinate power , was certainly in some respects artificial ; but the power itself was natural , and not subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the ...
... throne reposed . The military force which put Rome in pos session of this inordinate power , was certainly in some respects artificial ; but the power itself was natural , and not subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the ...
Side 42
... , but also of men generally - of all that ever should come after him , or should sit on thrones under the denomina- tions of Czars , Kesars , or Cisars of the Bosphorus and ― the Danube ; of all in every age that should 42 THE CESARS .
... , but also of men generally - of all that ever should come after him , or should sit on thrones under the denomina- tions of Czars , Kesars , or Cisars of the Bosphorus and ― the Danube ; of all in every age that should 42 THE CESARS .
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