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Side 63
... Augustus . But Sir William , ascribing no force to the acts of a people who had sunk so low as to exult in their chains , and to decorate with honors the very instruments of their own vassalage , would not recognise this popular crea ...
... Augustus . But Sir William , ascribing no force to the acts of a people who had sunk so low as to exult in their chains , and to decorate with honors the very instruments of their own vassalage , would not recognise this popular crea ...
Side 64
... Augustus , at once a trophy of public merit , a monument of public gratitude , and an effectual obliteration of his own natal obscurity . But , if merely odious to men of Sir William's prin- ciples , to others the character of Augustus ...
... Augustus , at once a trophy of public merit , a monument of public gratitude , and an effectual obliteration of his own natal obscurity . But , if merely odious to men of Sir William's prin- ciples , to others the character of Augustus ...
Side 66
... Augustus was often vaunted by an- tiquity , ( with whom success was not so much a test of merit as itself a merit of the highest quality , ) and in no instance was this felicity more conspicuous than in the first act of his entrance ...
... Augustus was often vaunted by an- tiquity , ( with whom success was not so much a test of merit as itself a merit of the highest quality , ) and in no instance was this felicity more conspicuous than in the first act of his entrance ...
Side 68
... Augustus , on terms far below those which they must in prudence have exacted from the fiery and adventurous Anthony . Each was an ideal in his own class . But Augustus , having finally triumphed , has met with more than justice from ...
... Augustus , on terms far below those which they must in prudence have exacted from the fiery and adventurous Anthony . Each was an ideal in his own class . But Augustus , having finally triumphed , has met with more than justice from ...
Side 71
... Augustus affect , and in reality attain , at a time when the very object of all civic feeling was absolutely extinct ; so much are men governed by words . Suetonius assures us , that many evidences were current even to his times of this ...
... Augustus affect , and in reality attain , at a time when the very object of all civic feeling was absolutely extinct ; so much are men governed by words . Suetonius assures us , that many evidences were current even to his times of this ...
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Alexander Alexander Severus amongst ancient anecdotes army assassination Augustus Aurelian barbarians body Cæsar Caligula Caracalla Carus Cassius character Christian Cicero circumstances civic civil Commodus condition death Decius declension defeated Dioclesian discipline doubt doubtless effect Emilianus enemy express eyes fact father favor fear frontier Galerius Gallienus Gaul Goths grandeur habits Hadrian hand happened historians honors human nature imperial instance interest Julius Julius Cæsar king legions less luxury Macrinus Marcus Aurelius Maximin means memorable mighty military mode monarchy moral mother murder necessity Nero never NOTE notice Numerian occasion original palace party perhaps Persian Philip the Arab philosopher popular prætorian prince Probus prosperity provinces purpose rank reason reign remarkable republic republican revolution rival Roman emperor Roman empire Rome sacred seems senate sense Severus soldier spirit succession Suetonius supposed Sylla thousand throne tion troops true vast victory whilst whole writer
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Side 242 - Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye; And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.
Side 19 - Czesarean (so to speak) in their tone of moral feeling. Thus, for example, the night before he was assassinated, he dreamt at intervals that he was soarIng above the clouds on wings, and that he placed his hand within the right hand of Jove.
Side 54 - Men like Mark Antony, with minds of chaotic composition — light conflicting with darkness, proportions of colossal grandeur disfigured by unsymmetrical arrangement, the angelic in close neighborhood with the brutal — are first read in their true meaning by an age learned in the philosophy of the human heart.