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Side 21
... dangers always arise from persons in the rank of competitors and rivals . Sometimes it menaced . him in quarters which his eye had never penetrated , and from enemies too obscure to have reached his ear THE CÆSARS . 21.
... dangers always arise from persons in the rank of competitors and rivals . Sometimes it menaced . him in quarters which his eye had never penetrated , and from enemies too obscure to have reached his ear THE CÆSARS . 21.
Side 44
... dangers , the bands of gladia tors , kept in the pay of the more ambitious amongst the Roman nobles , gave a popular tone of ferocity and of personal risk to the course of such contests ; and either to forestall ... danger 44 THE CESARS .
... dangers , the bands of gladia tors , kept in the pay of the more ambitious amongst the Roman nobles , gave a popular tone of ferocity and of personal risk to the course of such contests ; and either to forestall ... danger 44 THE CESARS .
Side 45
... danger , however , he had no leisure in his thoughts of consolation ; the sole danger which he contemplated , or supposed his mother to contemplate , was the danger of defeat , and for that he reserved his consolations . He bade her ...
... danger , however , he had no leisure in his thoughts of consolation ; the sole danger which he contemplated , or supposed his mother to contemplate , was the danger of defeat , and for that he reserved his consolations . He bade her ...
Side 48
... danger in ex- tremity , ― the prodigious energy and rapidity of his decisions and motions in the field ; the skill with which he penetrated the designs of his enemies , and the exemplary speed with which he provided a remedy for ...
... danger in ex- tremity , ― the prodigious energy and rapidity of his decisions and motions in the field ; the skill with which he penetrated the designs of his enemies , and the exemplary speed with which he provided a remedy for ...
Side 48
... danger in ex- tremity , the prodigious energy and rapidity of his decisions and motions in the field ; the skill with which he penetrated the designs of his enemies , and the exemplary speed with which he provided a remedy for disasters ...
... danger in ex- tremity , the prodigious energy and rapidity of his decisions and motions in the field ; the skill with which he penetrated the designs of his enemies , and the exemplary speed with which he provided a remedy for disasters ...
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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.