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Side 7
... empire . It is false to say , that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius ...
... empire . It is false to say , that with Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius ...
Side 8
... empires . ' Peace , then , rhetoricians , false threnodists of false liberty hollow chanters over the ashes of a hollow republic ! Without Cæsar , we affirm a thousand times that there would have been no perfect Rome ; and , but for ...
... empires . ' Peace , then , rhetoricians , false threnodists of false liberty hollow chanters over the ashes of a hollow republic ! Without Cæsar , we affirm a thousand times that there would have been no perfect Rome ; and , but for ...
Side 9
... empire , which embraced the whole δικεμενι the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recog- nised by the muse of History - than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into question or made conditional ...
... empire , which embraced the whole δικεμενι the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recog- nised by the muse of History - than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into question or made conditional ...
Side 11
... empire ' rising to that giddy altitude — an altitude which sufficed to bring it within the ken of posterity to the sixtieth generation . Power is measured by resistance . Upon such a scale , if it were applied with skill , the relations ...
... empire ' rising to that giddy altitude — an altitude which sufficed to bring it within the ken of posterity to the sixtieth generation . Power is measured by resistance . Upon such a scale , if it were applied with skill , the relations ...
Side 12
... Empires , or Monarchies . These are noticed in the Holy Scriptures ; and it is upon their warrant that men have supposed no fifth mon- archy or universal empire possible in an earthly sense ; but that , whenever such an empire arises ...
... Empires , or Monarchies . These are noticed in the Holy Scriptures ; and it is upon their warrant that men have supposed no fifth mon- archy or universal empire possible in an earthly sense ; but that , whenever such an empire arises ...
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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.