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Side 11
... original impulse given to the feelings of men by the sacred majesty of the Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another heaven , and across the wilderness ...
... original impulse given to the feelings of men by the sacred majesty of the Roman throne . How potent must that splendor have been , whose mere reflection shot rays upon a distant crown , under another heaven , and across the wilderness ...
Side 41
... - witted soldier , it did him service greater than all the subtilties of all the schools could have accom- plished , and a service which subsisted to the end of the war . Great as Cæsar was by the benefit of his original THE CÆSARS . 41.
... - witted soldier , it did him service greater than all the subtilties of all the schools could have accom- plished , and a service which subsisted to the end of the war . Great as Cæsar was by the benefit of his original THE CÆSARS . 41.
Side 42
... original nature , there can be no doubt that he , like others , owed something to circumstances ; and perhaps , amongst those which were most favorable to the premature development of great self - dependence , we must reckon the early ...
... original nature , there can be no doubt that he , like others , owed something to circumstances ; and perhaps , amongst those which were most favorable to the premature development of great self - dependence , we must reckon the early ...
Side 51
... original ground of his ambition and his revolutionary projects , as though the desperate condition of his private affairs had sug gested a civil war to his calculations as the best or only mode of redressing it . But , on the contrary ...
... original ground of his ambition and his revolutionary projects , as though the desperate condition of his private affairs had sug gested a civil war to his calculations as the best or only mode of redressing it . But , on the contrary ...
Side 51
... original ground of his ambition and his revolutionary projects , as though the desperate condition of his private affairs had sug- gested a civil war to his calculations as the best or only mode of redressing it . But , on the contrary ...
... original ground of his ambition and his revolutionary projects , as though the desperate condition of his private affairs had sug- gested a civil war to his calculations as the best or only mode of redressing it . But , on the contrary ...
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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.