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Side 16
... military force which put Rome in pos- session of this inordinate power , was certainly in some respects artificial ; but the power itself was natural , and not subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the commercial empires of our ...
... military force which put Rome in pos- session of this inordinate power , was certainly in some respects artificial ; but the power itself was natural , and not subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the commercial empires of our ...
Side 23
... military stations , sus- tained by the mere thirst of vengeance - against that mighty foe whom they knew only by his proclamations against themselves . Every thing con- vengeance tinued to prosper ; the conspirators met under the walls ...
... military stations , sus- tained by the mere thirst of vengeance - against that mighty foe whom they knew only by his proclamations against themselves . Every thing con- vengeance tinued to prosper ; the conspirators met under the walls ...
Side 40
... military superior . In the course of this harangue , Cæsar often raised his left hand with Demosthenic action , and once or twice he drew off the ring , which every Roman gentleman — simply as such - - wore as the inseparable adjunct ...
... military superior . In the course of this harangue , Cæsar often raised his left hand with Demosthenic action , and once or twice he drew off the ring , which every Roman gentleman — simply as such - - wore as the inseparable adjunct ...
Side 48
... military harangue to the following effect : Know that within a few days the king will come up with us , bringing with him sixty thousand legionaries , thirty thousand cavalry , one hundred thousand light troops , besides three hundred ...
... military harangue to the following effect : Know that within a few days the king will come up with us , bringing with him sixty thousand legionaries , thirty thousand cavalry , one hundred thousand light troops , besides three hundred ...
Side 50
... military attachment , beyond all that Wallenstein or any commander , the most beloved amongst his troops , has ever experienced , that , on the breaking out of the civil war , not only did the cen- turions of every legion severally ...
... military attachment , beyond all that Wallenstein or any commander , the most beloved amongst his troops , has ever experienced , that , on the breaking out of the civil war , not only did the cen- turions of every legion severally ...
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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.