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Side 35
... memorable night when he had resolved to take the first step ( and in such a case the first step , as regarded the power of retreating , was also the final step ) which placed him in arms against the state , it happened that his head ...
... memorable night when he had resolved to take the first step ( and in such a case the first step , as regarded the power of retreating , was also the final step ) which placed him in arms against the state , it happened that his head ...
Side 45
... memorable . He had neither any distinct grounds of hope , nor any eminent example at that time , to countenance him in this struggle — which yet he pushed on in the most uncompromising style , and to the utmost verge of defiance . The ...
... memorable . He had neither any distinct grounds of hope , nor any eminent example at that time , to countenance him in this struggle — which yet he pushed on in the most uncompromising style , and to the utmost verge of defiance . The ...
Side 83
... memorable was the contrast , within the circuit of his own family . This lord of the universe groaned as often as the ladies of his house , his daughter and grand - daughter , were mentioned . The shame which he felt on their account ...
... memorable was the contrast , within the circuit of his own family . This lord of the universe groaned as often as the ladies of his house , his daughter and grand - daughter , were mentioned . The shame which he felt on their account ...
Side 86
... , and the slightness of the occasions upon which he delighted to hang his most memorable atrocities , aggra . vated their impression at the time , and must have con- tributed greatly to sharpen the sword of vengeance . His 86 THE CÆSARS .
... , and the slightness of the occasions upon which he delighted to hang his most memorable atrocities , aggra . vated their impression at the time , and must have con- tributed greatly to sharpen the sword of vengeance . His 86 THE CÆSARS .
Side 97
... memorable occasion was in the heraldic and ancestral honors of the city . His- toric Rome then went to wreck for ever . Then perished the domus priscorum ducum hostilibus adhuc spoliis adornata ; the ' rostral ' palace ; the mansion of ...
... memorable occasion was in the heraldic and ancestral honors of the city . His- toric Rome then went to wreck for ever . Then perished the domus priscorum ducum hostilibus adhuc spoliis adornata ; the ' rostral ' palace ; the mansion of ...
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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.