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Side 5
... facts , either of an- cient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude ; and not many if we except the cities of Greece , none at all - in the grandeur of architectural display . Speak ...
... facts , either of an- cient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude ; and not many if we except the cities of Greece , none at all - in the grandeur of architectural display . Speak ...
Side 14
... facts which have survived , that each of the four great empires successively triumphed over an antagonist , barbarous in comparison of itself , and each by and through that very superiority in the arts and policy of civilization . Rome ...
... facts which have survived , that each of the four great empires successively triumphed over an antagonist , barbarous in comparison of itself , and each by and through that very superiority in the arts and policy of civilization . Rome ...
Side 15
... fact no vinculum of social organization which held them together , but the ideal vinculum of a common fealty , and of submsision to the same sceptre . This is not like the tie of manners , operative even where it is not perceived , but ...
... fact no vinculum of social organization which held them together , but the ideal vinculum of a common fealty , and of submsision to the same sceptre . This is not like the tie of manners , operative even where it is not perceived , but ...
Side 15
... facts , either of an- cient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude ; and not many - if we except the cities of Greece , none at all - in the grandeur of architectural display . Speak ...
... facts , either of an- cient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude ; and not many - if we except the cities of Greece , none at all - in the grandeur of architectural display . Speak ...
Side 15
... facts which have survived , that each of the four great empires successively triumphed over an antagonist , barbarous in comparison of itself , and each by and through that very superiority in the arts and policy of civilization . Rome ...
... facts which have survived , that each of the four great empires successively triumphed over an antagonist , barbarous in comparison of itself , and each by and through that very superiority in the arts and policy of civilization . Rome ...
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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.