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... notes , or memoranda , afterwards to be worked up by regular historians ; but , as Cicero observes , their merit was such in the eyes of the dis- cerning , that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them . In another ...
... notes , or memoranda , afterwards to be worked up by regular historians ; but , as Cicero observes , their merit was such in the eyes of the dis- cerning , that all judicious writers shrank from the attempt to alter them . In another ...
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... undoubtedly the sublimest incarnation of power , and a monument the mightiest of greatness built by human hands , which upon this planet has been suffered to appear . NOTES . NOTE 1. Page 5 . Concerning this question 262 THE CESARS .
... undoubtedly the sublimest incarnation of power , and a monument the mightiest of greatness built by human hands , which upon this planet has been suffered to appear . NOTES . NOTE 1. Page 5 . Concerning this question 262 THE CESARS .
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Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. NOTES . NOTE 1. Page 5 . Concerning this question -once so fervidly debated , yet so unprofitably for the final adjudication , and in some respects , we may add , so erroneously on a future occasion ...
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. NOTES . NOTE 1. Page 5 . Concerning this question -once so fervidly debated , yet so unprofitably for the final adjudication , and in some respects , we may add , so erroneously on a future occasion ...
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... NOTE 6. Page 16 . Unless that hand were her own armed against herself ; upon which topic there is a burst of noble eloquence in one of the ancient Panegyrici , when haranguing the Emperor Theodo- sius : Thou , Rome ! that , having once ...
... NOTE 6. Page 16 . Unless that hand were her own armed against herself ; upon which topic there is a burst of noble eloquence in one of the ancient Panegyrici , when haranguing the Emperor Theodo- sius : Thou , Rome ! that , having once ...
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Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. NOTE 8. Page 35 . It is an interesting circumstance in the habits of the ... NOTES . 265.
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. NOTE 8. Page 35 . It is an interesting circumstance in the habits of the ... NOTES . 265.
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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.