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Side 65
... adopt as gospel truths all the party re- proaches of Anthony . Certainly he was utterly unfur- nished by nature with ... adopted by his grand- uncle , Julius . That adoption made him , to all intents and purposes of law , the son of his ...
... adopt as gospel truths all the party re- proaches of Anthony . Certainly he was utterly unfur- nished by nature with ... adopted by his grand- uncle , Julius . That adoption made him , to all intents and purposes of law , the son of his ...
Side 66
... adopted son of the first Cæsar not only escaped assassination , but was enabled to postpone indefinitely the final and military struggle for the vacant seat of empire , and in the mean time to maintain a coequal rank with the leaders in ...
... adopted son of the first Cæsar not only escaped assassination , but was enabled to postpone indefinitely the final and military struggle for the vacant seat of empire , and in the mean time to maintain a coequal rank with the leaders in ...
Side 72
... the whole audience in the Roman theatre had risen upon the entrance of his two adopted sons , at that time not seventeen years old , he was highly displeased , and even thought it necessary to publish his 72 THE CÆSARS .
... the whole audience in the Roman theatre had risen upon the entrance of his two adopted sons , at that time not seventeen years old , he was highly displeased , and even thought it necessary to publish his 72 THE CÆSARS .
Side 104
... adopt , from some apprehension that he should be torn to pieces in his road to the forum ; and , at all events , he concluded to postpone it to the following day . Meantime events were now hurrying to their catastrophe , which for ever ...
... adopt , from some apprehension that he should be torn to pieces in his road to the forum ; and , at all events , he concluded to postpone it to the following day . Meantime events were now hurrying to their catastrophe , which for ever ...
Side 133
... adopted the same practice , but not with the same result ; for to him , either from age or constitution , this very custom proved the original occasion of his last illness . Imitation , indeed , was a general principle of action with ...
... adopted the same practice , but not with the same result ; for to him , either from age or constitution , this very custom proved the original occasion of his last illness . Imitation , indeed , was a general principle of action with ...
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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.