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... doubt whatsoever , that even amongst his own countrymen , and his own contempo- raries , the same verdict would have been returned , had it been collected upon the famous principle of Themis- tocles , that he should be reputed the first ...
... doubt whatsoever , that even amongst his own countrymen , and his own contempo- raries , the same verdict would have been returned , had it been collected upon the famous principle of Themis- tocles , that he should be reputed the first ...
Side 65
... , indeed , it was ; but , had it been formally proposed and ratified , there cannot be a doubt that the young Octavius would have been pointed out to 5 THE CÆSARS . 65 without its appropriate interest. He was summoned ...
... , indeed , it was ; but , had it been formally proposed and ratified , there cannot be a doubt that the young Octavius would have been pointed out to 5 THE CÆSARS . 65 without its appropriate interest. He was summoned ...
Side 66
... merit as itself a merit of the highest quality , ) and in no instance was this felicity more conspicuous than in the first act of his entrance upon the political scene . No doubt his friends and enemies alike thought of him 66 THE CÆSARS .
... merit as itself a merit of the highest quality , ) and in no instance was this felicity more conspicuous than in the first act of his entrance upon the political scene . No doubt his friends and enemies alike thought of him 66 THE CÆSARS .
Side 67
Thomas De Quincey. No doubt his friends and enemies alike thought of him , at the moment of Cæsar's assassination , as we now think of a young man heir - elect to some person of immense wealth , cut off by a sudden death before he has ...
Thomas De Quincey. No doubt his friends and enemies alike thought of him , at the moment of Cæsar's assassination , as we now think of a young man heir - elect to some person of immense wealth , cut off by a sudden death before he has ...
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... doubt , if not upon the fact , yet at least upon the sincerity , of his civism , that undoubtedly Augustus cultivated his kingly connections with considerable anxiety . It may have been upon motives merely political that he kept at Rome ...
... doubt , if not upon the fact , yet at least upon the sincerity , of his civism , that undoubtedly Augustus cultivated his kingly connections with considerable anxiety . It may have been upon motives merely political that he kept at Rome ...
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