De Quincey's Writings, Bind 4Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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Side 15
... mode of natural wealth , within her own ring- fence , that since that era no land , no part and parcel of the Roman empire , has ever risen into strength and opulence , except where unusual artificial industry has availed to counteract ...
... mode of natural wealth , within her own ring- fence , that since that era no land , no part and parcel of the Roman empire , has ever risen into strength and opulence , except where unusual artificial industry has availed to counteract ...
Side 15
... mode of natural wealth , within her own ring- fence , that since that era no land , no part and parcel of the Roman empire , has ever risen into strength and opulence , except where unusual artificial industry has availed to counteract ...
... mode of natural wealth , within her own ring- fence , that since that era no land , no part and parcel of the Roman empire , has ever risen into strength and opulence , except where unusual artificial industry has availed to counteract ...
Side 17
... mode of strength , with absolute immunity from all kinds and degrees of weakness . It ought not , therefore , to surprise us that the emperor , as the depositary of this charmed power , should have been looked upon as a sacred person ...
... mode of strength , with absolute immunity from all kinds and degrees of weakness . It ought not , therefore , to surprise us that the emperor , as the depositary of this charmed power , should have been looked upon as a sacred person ...
Side 18
... modes of authority , must be invested by all minds alike with . some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the ... mode of error has perhaps been designed as a process , and adapted by Providence to the case of those who were ...
... modes of authority , must be invested by all minds alike with . some dim and undefined relation to the sanctities of the ... mode of error has perhaps been designed as a process , and adapted by Providence to the case of those who were ...
Side 26
... mode of history . The six writers , whose sketches are collected under the general title of the Augustan History , followed in the same track . Though full of entertainment , and of the most curious researches , they are all of them ...
... mode of history . The six writers , whose sketches are collected under the general title of the Augustan History , followed in the same track . Though full of entertainment , and of the most curious researches , they are all of them ...
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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.