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... Rome , therefore , which came last in the succession , and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon ...
... Rome , therefore , which came last in the succession , and swallowed up the three great powers that had seriatim cast the human race into one mould , and had brought them under the unity of a single will , entered by inheritance upon ...
Side 15
... Rome laid a belt about the Mediterranean of a thousand miles in breadth ; and within that zone she comprehended not only all the great cities of the ancient world , but so perfectly did she lay the garden of the world in every climate ...
... Rome laid a belt about the Mediterranean of a thousand miles in breadth ; and within that zone she comprehended not only all the great cities of the ancient world , but so perfectly did she lay the garden of the world in every climate ...
Side 16
... Rome in pos session of this inordinate power , was certainly in some 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 ...
... Rome in pos session of this inordinate power , was certainly in some 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 ...
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... Rome . From the Danube to the Tiber did this band of robbers severally pursue their perilous routes through all the difficulties of the road and the jealousies of the military stations , sus- tained by the mere thirst of vengeance ...
... Rome . From the Danube to the Tiber did this band of robbers severally pursue their perilous routes through all the difficulties of the road and the jealousies of the military stations , sus- tained by the mere thirst of vengeance ...
Side 24
Thomas De Quincey. tinued to prosper ; the conspirators met under the walls of Rome ; the final details were arranged ; and those also would have prospered but for a trifling accident . The season was one of general carnival at Rome ...
Thomas De Quincey. tinued to prosper ; the conspirators met under the walls of Rome ; the final details were arranged ; and those also would have prospered but for a trifling accident . The season was one of general carnival at Rome ...
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De Quincey's Writings: Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men ..., Bind 1 Thomas De Quincey Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2006 |
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