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Side 15
... revealed . The youngest reader will know that the grandest forms in which the collective might of the human race has manifested itself , are the four monarchies . Four times have the distributive forces of nations THE CESARS . 11.
... revealed . The youngest reader will know that the grandest forms in which the collective might of the human race has manifested itself , are the four monarchies . Four times have the distributive forces of nations THE CESARS . 11.
Side 15
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. monarchies . Four times have the distributive forces of nations gathered themselves , under the strong com- pression of the sword , into mighty aggregates - de- nominated Universal Empires , or ...
Thomas De Quincey James Thomas Fields. monarchies . Four times have the distributive forces of nations gathered themselves , under the strong com- pression of the sword , into mighty aggregates - de- nominated Universal Empires , or ...
Side 15
... forces , each of these empires has the great defect of being disjointed , and even insusceptible of perfect union . It is in fact no vinculum of social organization which held them together , but the ideal vinculum of a common fealty ...
... forces , each of these empires has the great defect of being disjointed , and even insusceptible of perfect union . It is in fact no vinculum of social organization which held them together , but the ideal vinculum of a common fealty ...
Side 16
... force which put 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 ...
... force which put 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 ...
Side 17
... forces which could restrain it , or endanger it - should be regarded as sharing in the attributes of supernatural beings , is no more than might naturally be expected . All other known power in human hands has either been extensive ...
... forces which could restrain it , or endanger it - should be regarded as sharing in the attributes of supernatural beings , is no more than might naturally be expected . All other known power in human hands has either been extensive ...
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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.