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Side 67
... once solemnly created in his favor by a reversionary title , would have been deliberately to resign it . This would have been a confession of weakness liable to no disguise , and ruinous to any subsequent pretensions . Yet , without ...
... once solemnly created in his favor by a reversionary title , would have been deliberately to resign it . This would have been a confession of weakness liable to no disguise , and ruinous to any subsequent pretensions . Yet , without ...
Side 68
... once gained ; and in no case to miss an advantage , or sacrifice an opportunity , by any consideration of gene- rosity . No modern insurance office but would have guaranteed an event depending upon the final success of Augustus , on ...
... once gained ; and in no case to miss an advantage , or sacrifice an opportunity , by any consideration of gene- rosity . No modern insurance office but would have guaranteed an event depending upon the final success of Augustus , on ...
Side 82
... once actually slaughtered upon an altar , a large body of his prisoners ; and such was the contempt with which he was regarded by some of that number , that , when led out to death , they saluted their other proscriber , Anthony , with ...
... once actually slaughtered upon an altar , a large body of his prisoners ; and such was the contempt with which he was regarded by some of that number , that , when led out to death , they saluted their other proscriber , Anthony , with ...
Side 87
... Once , when it happened that his sleep was disturbed by such an occasion , he sent in soldiers to eject them ; and with orders so rigorous , as it appeared by the event , that in this singular tumult , twenty Roman knights , and as many ...
... Once , when it happened that his sleep was disturbed by such an occasion , he sent in soldiers to eject them ; and with orders so rigorous , as it appeared by the event , that in this singular tumult , twenty Roman knights , and as many ...
Side 91
... once . Nero ( for as to Claudius , he came too late to the throne to indulge any propensities of this nature with so little discretion ) was but a variety of the same species . He also was an amateur , and an enthusiastic amateur of ...
... once . Nero ( for as to Claudius , he came too late to the throne to indulge any propensities of this nature with so little discretion ) was but a variety of the same species . He also was an amateur , and an enthusiastic amateur of ...
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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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