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Side 8
... , kesars , or empe- rors , are mere phantoms of royalty . The Cæsar of Western Rome he only of all earthly potentates , past or to come , could be said to reign as a monarch , that is , as a solitary king . He was 8 THE CESARS .
... , kesars , or empe- rors , are mere phantoms of royalty . The Cæsar of Western Rome he only of all earthly potentates , past or to come , could be said to reign as a monarch , that is , as a solitary king . He was 8 THE CESARS .
Side 15
... , kesars , or empe- rors , are mere phantoms of royalty . The Cæsar of Western Rome he only of all earthly potentates , past or to come , could be said to reign as a monarch , that is , as a solitary king . He was 8 THE CÆSARS .
... , kesars , or empe- rors , are mere phantoms of royalty . The Cæsar of Western Rome he only of all earthly potentates , past or to come , could be said to reign as a monarch , that is , as a solitary king . He was 8 THE CÆSARS .
Side 22
... reign . The story is narrated by Herodian , and the circumstances are these : A slave of noble qualities , and of mag- nificent person , having liberated himself from the degradations of bondage , determined to avenge his own wrongs by ...
... reign . The story is narrated by Herodian , and the circumstances are these : A slave of noble qualities , and of mag- nificent person , having liberated himself from the degradations of bondage , determined to avenge his own wrongs by ...
Side 88
... reign , as likely to be marked by no wide - spreading calamity . Augustus , ' said he , was happy ; for in his reign occurred the slaughter of Varus and his legions . Tiberius was happy ; for in his occurred that glorious fall of the ...
... reign , as likely to be marked by no wide - spreading calamity . Augustus , ' said he , was happy ; for in his reign occurred the slaughter of Varus and his legions . Tiberius was happy ; for in his occurred that glorious fall of the ...
Side 113
... reigns ( all three , taken conjunctly , having held the supreme power for no more than twelve months and twenty days ) ... reign Gibbon takes up his tale of the decline of the empire . And this classification would probably have prevailed ...
... reigns ( all three , taken conjunctly , having held the supreme power for no more than twelve months and twenty days ) ... reign Gibbon takes up his tale of the decline of the empire . And this classification would probably have prevailed ...
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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.