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Side 8
... earliest Cæsar , had prosperously begun . And thus by one godlike man was a nation - city matured ; and from the ever- lasting and nameless 3 city was a man produced capable of taming her indomitable nature , and of forcing her to ...
... earliest Cæsar , had prosperously begun . And thus by one godlike man was a nation - city matured ; and from the ever- lasting and nameless 3 city was a man produced capable of taming her indomitable nature , and of forcing her to ...
Side 12
... earliest , we may remark , that it found men in no state of cohesion . This cause , which came in aid of its first foundation , would probably con- - tinue ; and would diminish the intensity of the power 12 THE CÆSARS .
... earliest , we may remark , that it found men in no state of cohesion . This cause , which came in aid of its first foundation , would probably con- - tinue ; and would diminish the intensity of the power 12 THE CÆSARS .
Side 13
... earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were the men of Macedon ; and neither one tribe nor the other found any adequate resistance in the luxu- rious occupants of Babylonia . We ...
... earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were the men of Macedon ; and neither one tribe nor the other found any adequate resistance in the luxu- rious occupants of Babylonia . We ...
Side 15
... earliest Cæsar , had prosperously begun . And thus by one godlike man was a nation - city matured ; and from the ever- lasting and nameless 3 city was a man produced- capable of taming her indomitable nature , and of forcing her to ...
... earliest Cæsar , had prosperously begun . And thus by one godlike man was a nation - city matured ; and from the ever- lasting and nameless 3 city was a man produced- capable of taming her indomitable nature , and of forcing her to ...
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... Cæsars 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.
... Cæsars 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.
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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.