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Side 10
... circumstances of their position - their climate , their remoteness , and their inaccessibility except through arid and sultry deserts than to intrinsic resources , such as could be permanently relied on in a serious trial of strength ...
... circumstances of their position - their climate , their remoteness , and their inaccessibility except through arid and sultry deserts than to intrinsic resources , such as could be permanently relied on in a serious trial of strength ...
Side 15
... circumstances of their position their climate , their remoteness , and their inaccessibility except through arid and sultry deserts than to intrinsic resources , such as could be permanently relied on in a serious trial of strength ...
... circumstances of their position their climate , their remoteness , and their inaccessibility except through arid and sultry deserts than to intrinsic resources , such as could be permanently relied on in a serious trial of strength ...
Side 20
... circumstance of divine worship attended the emperor in his life- time.7 To this view of the imperial character and relations must be added one single circumstance , which in some measure altered the whole for the individual who happened ...
... circumstance of divine worship attended the emperor in his life- time.7 To this view of the imperial character and relations must be added one single circumstance , which in some measure altered the whole for the individual who happened ...
Side 22
... circumstances are these : A slave of noble qualities , and of mag- nificent person , having liberated himself from the degradations of bondage , determined to avenge his own wrongs by inflicting continual terror upon the town and ...
... circumstances are these : A slave of noble qualities , and of mag- nificent person , having liberated himself from the degradations of bondage , determined to avenge his own wrongs by inflicting continual terror upon the town and ...
Side 25
... circumstances of violent opposition can be better illustrated than in this tale of Herodian . Whilst the emperor's mighty arms were stretched out to arrest some potentate in the heart of Asia , a poor slave is silently and stealthily ...
... circumstances of violent opposition can be better illustrated than in this tale of Herodian . Whilst the emperor's mighty arms were stretched out to arrest some potentate in the heart of Asia , a poor slave is silently and stealthily ...
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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.