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Side 25
... com- mences the first page of what in modern times we understand by anecdotes . Suetonius is the earliest writer in that department of biography ; so far as we know , he may be held first to have devised THE CÆSARS . 25.
... com- mences the first page of what in modern times we understand by anecdotes . Suetonius is the earliest writer in that department of biography ; so far as we know , he may be held first to have devised THE CÆSARS . 25.
Side 85
... page of history , would have been accounted fabulous dreams of impure romancers , taxing their extravagant imagina- tions to create combinations of wickedness more hide- ous than civilized men would tolerate , and more unnatural than ...
... page of history , would have been accounted fabulous dreams of impure romancers , taxing their extravagant imagina- tions to create combinations of wickedness more hide- ous than civilized men would tolerate , and more unnatural than ...
Side 104
... of desertion , which had occurred during his short absence ; the pages of his bedchamber had fled , carrying with them the coverlids of the imperial bed , - 6 which were probably inwrought with gold , and 104 THE CÆSARS .
... of desertion , which had occurred during his short absence ; the pages of his bedchamber had fled , carrying with them the coverlids of the imperial bed , - 6 which were probably inwrought with gold , and 104 THE CÆSARS .
Side 129
... pages in attendance are conducted to a saloon , where ( as in every where else ) the silence of night prevails , united with the silence of fear and whispering expectation . All are seated all look at each other in ominous anxiety ...
... pages in attendance are conducted to a saloon , where ( as in every where else ) the silence of night prevails , united with the silence of fear and whispering expectation . All are seated all look at each other in ominous anxiety ...
Side 197
... page of universal history . Rome was ravaged by a pestilence by a famine - by riots amounting to a civil war by a dreadful massacre of the unarmed mobby shocks of earthquake - and , finally , by a fire which consumed the national bank ...
... page of universal history . Rome was ravaged by a pestilence by a famine - by riots amounting to a civil war by a dreadful massacre of the unarmed mobby shocks of earthquake - and , finally , by a fire which consumed the national bank ...
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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.