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Side 30
... moral grandeur . Of so great a man it must be interesting to know all the well attested opinions which bear upon topics of universal interest to human nature ; as indeed no others stood much chance of preservation , unless it were from ...
... moral grandeur . Of so great a man it must be interesting to know all the well attested opinions which bear upon topics of universal interest to human nature ; as indeed no others stood much chance of preservation , unless it were from ...
Side 33
... moral feeling . Thus , for example , the night before he was assassinated , he dreamt at intervals that he was soar- ing above the clouds on wings , and that he placed his hand within the right hand of Jove . It would seem that perhaps ...
... moral feeling . Thus , for example , the night before he was assassinated , he dreamt at intervals that he was soar- ing above the clouds on wings , and that he placed his hand within the right hand of Jove . It would seem that perhaps ...
Side 39
... moral of his complaint , by alleging the old adage , that one man might steal a horse with more hope of indulgence than another could look over the hedge . Whereupon , by benefit of the universal mishearing in the outermost ring of the ...
... moral of his complaint , by alleging the old adage , that one man might steal a horse with more hope of indulgence than another could look over the hedge . Whereupon , by benefit of the universal mishearing in the outermost ring of the ...
Side 116
... moral sense , has been well and philosophically stated by Mr. Coleridge ; but that would hardly account for the ... morals but fifty years before the emperors , we can with difficulty believe that the descendants of a people so severe in ...
... moral sense , has been well and philosophically stated by Mr. Coleridge ; but that would hardly account for the ... morals but fifty years before the emperors , we can with difficulty believe that the descendants of a people so severe in ...
Side 119
... morals ; a sanction supplementary to that of the conscience . Now , for a rude and uncultivated people , the Pagan mythology might not be too . gross to discharge the main ... moral obligations , and of our consolations in THE CÆSARS . 119.
... morals ; a sanction supplementary to that of the conscience . Now , for a rude and uncultivated people , the Pagan mythology might not be too . gross to discharge the main ... moral obligations , and of our consolations in THE CÆSARS . 119.
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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.