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Side 13
... Persian spear prevail against the Assyrian . Two centuries revolved , seven or eight generations , when Alexander found himself in the same position as Cyrus for building a third monarchy , and aided by the self- same vices of luxurious ...
... Persian spear prevail against the Assyrian . Two centuries revolved , seven or eight generations , when Alexander found himself in the same position as Cyrus for building a third monarchy , and aided by the self- same vices of luxurious ...
Side 15
... Persian spear prevail against the Assyrian . Two centuries revolved , seven or eight generations , when Alexander found himself in the same position as Cyrus for building a third monarchy , and aided by the self- same vices of luxurious ...
... Persian spear prevail against the Assyrian . Two centuries revolved , seven or eight generations , when Alexander found himself in the same position as Cyrus for building a third monarchy , and aided by the self- same vices of luxurious ...
Side 212
... Persia was restored under the new race of the Sassanides . Artaxerxes , the first prince of this race , sent an ... Persians . In the event of a refusal , the ambassadors were in- structed to offer a defiance to the Roman prince . Upon ...
... Persia was restored under the new race of the Sassanides . Artaxerxes , the first prince of this race , sent an ... Persians . In the event of a refusal , the ambassadors were in- structed to offer a defiance to the Roman prince . Upon ...
Side 213
... Persian king saved the Roman armies from signal discomfiture ; and even thus there is no ground for claiming a victory ( as most historians do ) to the Roman arms . Any termination of the Persian war , however , whether glorious or not ...
... Persian king saved the Roman armies from signal discomfiture ; and even thus there is no ground for claiming a victory ( as most historians do ) to the Roman arms . Any termination of the Persian war , however , whether glorious or not ...
Side 214
... Persian campaign , and the unpromising commencement of the new war in Germany . But it seems probable that a dissolute and wicked army , like that of Alexander , had not murmured under the too little , but the too much of military ...
... Persian campaign , and the unpromising commencement of the new war in Germany . But it seems probable that a dissolute and wicked army , like that of Alexander , had not murmured under the too little , but the too much of military ...
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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.