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Side 13
... soldiers . The native Persians , in the earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were the men of Macedon ; and neither one tribe nor the other found any adequate resistance in the ...
... soldiers . The native Persians , in the earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were the men of Macedon ; and neither one tribe nor the other found any adequate resistance in the ...
Side 15
... soldiers . The native Persians , in the earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were the men of Macedon ; and neither one tribe nor the other found any adequate resistance in the ...
... soldiers . The native Persians , in the earliest and very limited import of that name , were a poor and hardy race of mountaineers . So were the men of Macedon ; and neither one tribe nor the other found any adequate resistance in the ...
Side 37
... soldiers , who were bolder than the rest , advanced towards the figure . Amongst this party , it happened that there were a few Roman trumpeters . From one of these , the phantom , rising as they advanced nearer , suddenly caught a ...
... soldiers , who were bolder than the rest , advanced towards the figure . Amongst this party , it happened that there were a few Roman trumpeters . From one of these , the phantom , rising as they advanced nearer , suddenly caught a ...
Side 40
... soldiers , with the cause of the people of Rome and of Roman liberty ; and perhaps with needless rhetoric attempted to ... soldier , who , from youth upwards , passes his life in camps , could the duties or the interests of citizens ...
... soldiers , with the cause of the people of Rome and of Roman liberty ; and perhaps with needless rhetoric attempted to ... soldier , who , from youth upwards , passes his life in camps , could the duties or the interests of citizens ...
Side 41
... 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.
... 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.
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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.