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Side 67
... necessity of defend- ing his supreme station by arms . To have left it unasserted , when once solemnly created in his favor by a reversionary title , would have been deliberately to resign it . This would have been a confession of ...
... necessity of defend- ing his supreme station by arms . To have left it unasserted , when once solemnly created in his favor by a reversionary title , would have been deliberately to resign it . This would have been a confession of ...
Side 80
... necessity of applying some palliation to the case , we have no doubt that Augustus would devise the scheme of laying some distant king under such obligations to fidelity as would suffice to stand the first shock of misfortune . Such a ...
... necessity of applying some palliation to the case , we have no doubt that Augustus would devise the scheme of laying some distant king under such obligations to fidelity as would suffice to stand the first shock of misfortune . Such a ...
Side 100
... necessity for leaving Naples ; and he returned to Rome , as the historian says , prætrepidus ; by which word , however , according to its genuine classical acceptation , we apprehend is not meant that he was highly alarmed , but only ...
... necessity for leaving Naples ; and he returned to Rome , as the historian says , prætrepidus ; by which word , however , according to its genuine classical acceptation , we apprehend is not meant that he was highly alarmed , but only ...
Side 119
... necessity fell to the ground . Those who were obliged to reject the ridiculous legends which invested the whole of their Pantheon , together with the fabulous adjudgers of future punishments , could not but dismiss the punish- ments ...
... necessity fell to the ground . Those who were obliged to reject the ridiculous legends which invested the whole of their Pantheon , together with the fabulous adjudgers of future punishments , could not but dismiss the punish- ments ...
Side 184
... necessity of bloodshed , extinguished under this monoto- nous cloud of cruel jealousy and everlasting panic every characteristic feature of genial human nature , that would else have emerged through so long a train of princes . There is ...
... necessity of bloodshed , extinguished under this monoto- nous cloud of cruel jealousy and everlasting panic every characteristic feature of genial human nature , that would else have emerged through so long a train of princes . There is ...
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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.