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Side 17
... looked upon as a sacred person , and the imperial family considered a divina domus . ' It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally upon hypocrisy . Undoubtedly the expressions of this feeling are ...
... looked upon as a sacred person , and the imperial family considered a divina domus . ' It is an error to regard this as excess of adulation , or as built originally upon hypocrisy . Undoubtedly the expressions of this feeling are ...
Side 26
... , we can undertake that the memorials which we shall bring forward , may be looked upon as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book . 6 CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar has 26 THE CÆSARS .
... , we can undertake that the memorials which we shall bring forward , may be looked upon as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book . 6 CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar has 26 THE CÆSARS .
Side 28
... looked down even upon the brilliant Sylla as an illiterate person , to class such a man with the race of furious destroyers exulting in the desolations they spread , is to err not by an individual trait , but by the whole genus . The ...
... looked down even upon the brilliant Sylla as an illiterate person , to class such a man with the race of furious destroyers exulting in the desolations they spread , is to err not by an individual trait , but by the whole genus . The ...
Side 43
... looked down upon him with maternal pride and delight , she looked up to him with female ambition as the re - edifier of her husband's honors , with reverence as to a column of the Roman grandeur , and with fear and feminine anxieties as ...
... looked down upon him with maternal pride and delight , she looked up to him with female ambition as the re - edifier of her husband's honors , with reverence as to a column of the Roman grandeur , and with fear and feminine anxieties as ...
Side 93
... looked about her too sharply to leave much hope in that scheme so that also was abandoned . Next , he con- ceived the idea of an artificial ship , which , at the touch of a few springs , might fall to pieces in deep water . Such a ship ...
... looked about her too sharply to leave much hope in that scheme so that also was abandoned . Next , he con- ceived the idea of an artificial ship , which , at the touch of a few springs , might fall to pieces in deep water . Such a ship ...
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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.