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Side 5
... respects it was absolutely unique . There was but one Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of an- cient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of ...
... respects it was absolutely unique . There was but one Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of an- cient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of ...
Side 15
... respects the simple grandeur of magnitude , builds her power upon sterility . She has it in her power to seduce an invading foe into vast circles of starvation , of which the radii measure a thousand leagues . Frost and snow are ...
... respects the simple grandeur of magnitude , builds her power upon sterility . She has it in her power to seduce an invading foe into vast circles of starvation , of which the radii measure a thousand leagues . Frost and snow are ...
Side 15
... respects it was absolutely unique . There was but one Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of an- cient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of ...
... respects it was absolutely unique . There was but one Rome : no other city , as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts , either of an- cient or modern times , has ever rivalled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of ...
Side 15
... respects the simple grandeur of magnitude , builds her power upon sterility . She has it in her power to seduce an invading foe into vast circles of starvation , of which the radii measure a thousand leagues . Frost and snow are ...
... respects the simple grandeur of magnitude , builds her power upon sterility . She has it in her power to seduce an invading foe into vast circles of starvation , of which the radii measure a thousand leagues . Frost and snow are ...
Side 16
... respects artificial ; but the power itself was natural , and not subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the commercial empires of our days , ( for all are in part commercial . ) The depression , the reverses , of Rome , were ...
... respects artificial ; but the power itself was natural , and not subject to the ebbs and flows which attend the commercial empires of our days , ( for all are in part commercial . ) The depression , the reverses , of Rome , were ...
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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.