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Side 5
... reason to say the Nation of London , and not the City of London ; · but of Rome in her palmy days , nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic . A million and a half of souls that population , apart from any other ...
... reason to say the Nation of London , and not the City of London ; · but of Rome in her palmy days , nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic . A million and a half of souls that population , apart from any other ...
Side 15
... reason to say the Nation of London , and not the City of London ; but of Rome in her palmy days , nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic . A million and a half of souls that population , apart from any other ...
... reason to say the Nation of London , and not the City of London ; but of Rome in her palmy days , nothing less could be said in the naked severity of logic . A million and a half of souls that population , apart from any other ...
Side 40
... reason of Harry Brougham's pity for his tender years and hopeful looks . Not less was the blunder which , on the banks of the Rubicon , befriended Cæsar . Immediately after crossing , he harangued the troops whom he had sent forward ...
... reason of Harry Brougham's pity for his tender years and hopeful looks . Not less was the blunder which , on the banks of the Rubicon , befriended Cæsar . Immediately after crossing , he harangued the troops whom he had sent forward ...
Side 77
... reasons of state , to a whole muster - roll of suitors ; first of all , to a son of Mark Anthony ; secondly , to the barbarous king ; thirdly , to her first cousin that Marcellus , the son of Octavia , only sister to Augustus , whose ...
... reasons of state , to a whole muster - roll of suitors ; first of all , to a son of Mark Anthony ; secondly , to the barbarous king ; thirdly , to her first cousin that Marcellus , the son of Octavia , only sister to Augustus , whose ...
Side 90
... reason for security in the extraordinary obligations , whether of hospitality or of religious vows , which seemed to lay him under some peculiar restraints in that case above all others ; for such circumstances of peculiarity , by which ...
... reason for security in the extraordinary obligations , whether of hospitality or of religious vows , which seemed to lay him under some peculiar restraints in that case above all others ; for such circumstances of peculiarity , by which ...
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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.