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Side 19
... interest of Heaven . They also had their place allowed . And we may be sure that , amongst them , the Roman emperor , as the great accountant for the happiness of more men , and men more cultivated , than ever before were intrusted to ...
... interest of Heaven . They also had their place allowed . And we may be sure that , amongst them , the Roman emperor , as the great accountant for the happiness of more men , and men more cultivated , than ever before were intrusted to ...
Side 30
... interest to human nature ; as indeed no others stood much chance of preservation , unless it were from as minute and curious a collector of anecdotage as Sue- tonius . And , first , it would be gratifying to know the opinion of Cæsar ...
... interest to human nature ; as indeed no others stood much chance of preservation , unless it were from as minute and curious a collector of anecdotage as Sue- tonius . And , first , it would be gratifying to know the opinion of Cæsar ...
Side 32
... interest in religious themes by mere compulsion of his own extraordinary elevation of mind , after making the fullest allowance for the special quality of that mind , which did certainly , to the whole extent of its characteristics ...
... interest in religious themes by mere compulsion of his own extraordinary elevation of mind , after making the fullest allowance for the special quality of that mind , which did certainly , to the whole extent of its characteristics ...
Side 40
... interest , and who , for his sake , had fled from home , there and then he produced to the soldiery ; thus ... interests of citizens survive those stronger and more personal relations connecting him with his military superior . In the ...
... interest , and who , for his sake , had fled from home , there and then he produced to the soldiery ; thus ... interests of citizens survive those stronger and more personal relations connecting him with his military superior . In the ...
Side 45
... uncompromising style , and to the utmost verge of defiance . The subject of the contrast gives it a fur- ther interest . It was the youthful wife of the youthful Cæsar who stood under the shadow of the great Dictator's THE CÆSARS . 45.
... uncompromising style , and to the utmost verge of defiance . The subject of the contrast gives it a fur- ther interest . It was the youthful wife of the youthful Cæsar who stood under the shadow of the great Dictator's THE CÆSARS . 45.
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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.