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Side 31
... fears and anxieties , in religious influences . A man of the world is but another designation for a man indis- posed to religious awe or contemplative enthusiasm . - Still it is a doctrine which we cherish - that THE CESARS . 31.
... fears and anxieties , in religious influences . A man of the world is but another designation for a man indis- posed to religious awe or contemplative enthusiasm . - Still it is a doctrine which we cherish - that THE CESARS . 31.
Side 43
... fear and feminine anxieties as to one whose aspiring spirit carried him but too prematurely into the fields of adventurous honor . One slight and evanescent sketch of the relations which subsisted between Cæsar and his mother , caught ...
... fear and feminine anxieties as to one whose aspiring spirit carried him but too prematurely into the fields of adventurous honor . One slight and evanescent sketch of the relations which subsisted between Cæsar and his mother , caught ...
Side 44
... fears . On the contrary , to any but a Roman mother his valedictory words , taken in connection with the known determination of his character , were of a nature to consummate her depression , as they tended to confirm the very worst of ...
... fears . On the contrary , to any but a Roman mother his valedictory words , taken in connection with the known determination of his character , were of a nature to consummate her depression , as they tended to confirm the very worst of ...
Side 45
... fear nothing ; for that without doubt he would return with victory , and with the ensigns of the dignity he sought , or would return a corpse . Early indeed did Cæsar's trials commence ; and it is probable , that , had not the death of ...
... fear nothing ; for that without doubt he would return with victory , and with the ensigns of the dignity he sought , or would return a corpse . Early indeed did Cæsar's trials commence ; and it is probable , that , had not the death of ...
Side 54
... fear of coercion or control , he persevered steadily in the same plan of providing for the day when he might need assistance , not from the state , but against the state . For amongst the private anecdotes which came to light under the ...
... fear of coercion or control , he persevered steadily in the same plan of providing for the day when he might need assistance , not from the state , but against the state . For amongst the private anecdotes which came to light under the ...
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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.