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... true also for our historical experience . Cæsar and Rome have flourished and expired together . The illimitable attributes of the Roman prince , boundless and comprehensive as the universal air , like that also bright and apprehensible ...
... true also for our historical experience . Cæsar and Rome have flourished and expired together . The illimitable attributes of the Roman prince , boundless and comprehensive as the universal air , like that also bright and apprehensible ...
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... true of one as of the other . For , if by comparison with Rome other cities were but villages , with even more propriety it may be asserted , that after the Roman Cæsars all modern kings , kesars , or empe- rors , are mere phantoms of ...
... true of one as of the other . For , if by comparison with Rome other cities were but villages , with even more propriety it may be asserted , that after the Roman Cæsars all modern kings , kesars , or empe- rors , are mere phantoms of ...
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... true , might pretend to the dignity of an empire . But her sovereigns , though sitting in the seat of the great king , ( ó ßaoikeus , ) were no longer the rulers of a vast and polished nation . They were regarded as barbarians - potent ...
... true , might pretend to the dignity of an empire . But her sovereigns , though sitting in the seat of the great king , ( ó ßaoikeus , ) were no longer the rulers of a vast and polished nation . They were regarded as barbarians - potent ...
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... true and unseen Father of the spiritual body . Nay , considering that even false religions , as those of Pagan mythology , have probably never been utterly stripped of all vestige of truth , but that every such mode of error has perhaps ...
... true and unseen Father of the spiritual body . Nay , considering that even false religions , as those of Pagan mythology , have probably never been utterly stripped of all vestige of truth , but that every such mode of error has perhaps ...
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