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... effect of with- drawing from the general remembrance his obscure descent . For the Octavian house [ gens ] had in neither of its branches risen to any great splendor of civic distinction , and in his own , to little or none . The same ...
... effect of with- drawing from the general remembrance his obscure descent . For the Octavian house [ gens ] had in neither of its branches risen to any great splendor of civic distinction , and in his own , to little or none . The same ...
Side 72
... effects of long familiarity with irresponsible power in himself . Such a modera . tion of feeling , we are almost obliged to consider as a genuine and unaffected expression of his real nature ; for , as an artifice of policy , it had ...
... effects of long familiarity with irresponsible power in himself . Such a modera . tion of feeling , we are almost obliged to consider as a genuine and unaffected expression of his real nature ; for , as an artifice of policy , it had ...
Side 92
... effects ; after which , immediately inviting Britannicus to a banquet , he had finally dispatched him . On Agrippina , however , no changes in the poison , whether of kind or strength , had any effect ; so that , after various trials ...
... effects ; after which , immediately inviting Britannicus to a banquet , he had finally dispatched him . On Agrippina , however , no changes in the poison , whether of kind or strength , had any effect ; so that , after various trials ...
Side 93
... effect of throwing Agrippina off her guard , and seduced her to Baiæ for the purpose of joining the emperor's party at a great banquet held in commemoration of a solemn festival . She came by water in a sort of light frigate , and was ...
... effect of throwing Agrippina off her guard , and seduced her to Baiæ for the purpose of joining the emperor's party at a great banquet held in commemoration of a solemn festival . She came by water in a sort of light frigate , and was ...
Side 97
... effect , and with the same deadly results , might have been attained quietly and secretly in so many of the humble Roman cœnacula ? The great loss on this memorable occasion was in the heraldic and ancestral honors of the city ...
... effect , and with the same deadly results , might have been attained quietly and secretly in so many of the humble Roman cœnacula ? The great loss on this memorable occasion was in the heraldic and ancestral honors of the city ...
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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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