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Side 18
... father of Catholic Christendom , could not but be viewed with awe by any Christian of deep feeling , as standing in some relation to the true and unseen Father of the spiritual body . Nay , considering that even false religions , as ...
... father of Catholic Christendom , could not but be viewed with awe by any Christian of deep feeling , as standing in some relation to the true and unseen Father of the spiritual body . Nay , considering that even false religions , as ...
Side 42
... father betimes profits a strong mind greatly . To Cæsar it was a prodigious benefit that he lost his father when not much more than fifteen . Perhaps it was an advantage also to his father that he died thus early . Had he stayed a year ...
... father betimes profits a strong mind greatly . To Cæsar it was a prodigious benefit that he lost his father when not much more than fifteen . Perhaps it was an advantage also to his father that he died thus early . Had he stayed a year ...
Side 45
... father , by throwing him prematurely upon his own resources , prematurely developed the masculine features of his character , forcing him whilst yet a boy under the discipline of civil conflict and the yoke of practical life , even his ...
... father , by throwing him prematurely upon his own resources , prematurely developed the masculine features of his character , forcing him whilst yet a boy under the discipline of civil conflict and the yoke of practical life , even his ...
Side 66
... father ; and would have been cut off too sud- denly to benefit by that reaction of popular feeling which saved the partisans of the Dictator , by separating the conspirators , and obliging them , without loss of time , to look to their ...
... father ; and would have been cut off too sud- denly to benefit by that reaction of popular feeling which saved the partisans of the Dictator , by separating the conspirators , and obliging them , without loss of time , to look to their ...
Side 75
... fathers of these princes spontaneously repaired to Rome , and there assuming the Roman dress — as an expression of reverence to the majesty of the omnipotent State did personal suit and service ' ( more clientum ) to Augustus . It is an ...
... fathers of these princes spontaneously repaired to Rome , and there assuming the Roman dress — as an expression of reverence to the majesty of the omnipotent State did personal suit and service ' ( more clientum ) to Augustus . It is an ...
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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.