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Side 60
... Dacia ; the conquest of Parthia ; and the cutting a ship canal through the Isthmus of Corinth . The reformation of the calendar he had already accom- plished . And of all his projects it may be said , that they were equally patriotic in ...
... Dacia ; the conquest of Parthia ; and the cutting a ship canal through the Isthmus of Corinth . The reformation of the calendar he had already accom- plished . And of all his projects it may be said , that they were equally patriotic in ...
Side 187
... Dacia as well as Parthia . But that these conquests were not substantial , — that they were connected by no true cement of cohesion with the existing empire , is evident from the rapidity with which they were aban- doned . In the next ...
... Dacia as well as Parthia . But that these conquests were not substantial , — that they were connected by no true cement of cohesion with the existing empire , is evident from the rapidity with which they were aban- doned . In the next ...
Side 193
... Dacia , was delegated to lieutenants . The system upon which these officers executed their commission was a mixed one of terror and persuasion . Some they defeated in battle ; and these were the majority ; for Herodian says , πλείζες ...
... Dacia , was delegated to lieutenants . The system upon which these officers executed their commission was a mixed one of terror and persuasion . Some they defeated in battle ; and these were the majority ; for Herodian says , πλείζες ...
Side 221
... Dacia they had ravaged for some time ; and here , ' says a German writer , ' observe the shortsightedness of the Emperor Trajan . Had he left the Dacians in possession of their indepen- dence , they would , under their native kings ...
... Dacia they had ravaged for some time ; and here , ' says a German writer , ' observe the shortsightedness of the Emperor Trajan . Had he left the Dacians in possession of their indepen- dence , they would , under their native kings ...
Side 236
... Dacia which Trajan had united with so much ostentation to the empire . Europe was now again in repose ; and Aurelian found himself at liberty to apply his powers as a reorganizer and restorer to the East . In that quarter of the world a ...
... Dacia which Trajan had united with so much ostentation to the empire . Europe was now again in repose ; and Aurelian found himself at liberty to apply his powers as a reorganizer and restorer to the East . In that quarter of the world a ...
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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.