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Side 18
... perhaps been designed as a process , and adapted by Providence to the case of those who were capable of admitting no more perfect shape of truth ; even the heads of such superstitions ( the Dalai Lama , for instance ) may not ...
... perhaps been designed as a process , and adapted by Providence to the case of those who were capable of admitting no more perfect shape of truth ; even the heads of such superstitions ( the Dalai Lama , for instance ) may not ...
Side 27
... perhaps never been worse appreciated than by him who in one sense described it best — that is , with most force and elo- quence wherever he really did comprehend it . This was Lucan , who has nowhere exhibited more brilliant rhetoric ...
... perhaps never been worse appreciated than by him who in one sense described it best — that is , with most force and elo- quence wherever he really did comprehend it . This was Lucan , who has nowhere exhibited more brilliant rhetoric ...
Side 30
... perhaps of the wide interval which , in Cæsar's age , had begun to separate the Roman nobility from the hungry and venal populace who were daily put up to sale , and bought by the highest bidder , manifested itself in the increasing ...
... perhaps of the wide interval which , in Cæsar's age , had begun to separate the Roman nobility from the hungry and venal populace who were daily put up to sale , and bought by the highest bidder , manifested itself in the increasing ...
Side 31
... perhaps , have made him so in any age , and apart from the circumstances of his per- sonal history . This natural tendency in him would doubtless receive a further bias in the same direction from the office of Pontifex Maximus , which ...
... perhaps , have made him so in any age , and apart from the circumstances of his per- sonal history . This natural tendency in him would doubtless receive a further bias in the same direction from the office of Pontifex Maximus , which ...
Side 33
... perhaps some obscure and half - formed image floated in his mind , of the eagle , as the king of birds ; secondly , as the tutelary emblem under which his con- quering legions had so often obeyed his voice ; and , thirdly , as the bird ...
... perhaps some obscure and half - formed image floated in his mind , of the eagle , as the king of birds ; secondly , as the tutelary emblem under which his con- quering legions had so often obeyed his voice ; and , thirdly , as the bird ...
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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.