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Side 53
... party to at least two other conspiracies . There was even a fourth , meditated by Crassus , which Cæsar so far encouraged as to undertake a journey to Rome from a very distant quarter , merely with a view to such chances as it might ...
... party to at least two other conspiracies . There was even a fourth , meditated by Crassus , which Cæsar so far encouraged as to undertake a journey to Rome from a very distant quarter , merely with a view to such chances as it might ...
Side 65
... party re- proaches of Anthony . Certainly he was utterly unfur- nished by nature with those endowments which seemed to be indispensable in a successor to the power of the great Dictator . But exactly in these deficiencies , and in ...
... party re- proaches of Anthony . Certainly he was utterly unfur- nished by nature with those endowments which seemed to be indispensable in a successor to the power of the great Dictator . But exactly in these deficiencies , and in ...
Side 72
... parties con- cerned in it . Sometimes , however , we find that men , careless of honors in their own persons , are glad to see them settling upon their family and immediate con- nections . But here again Augustus showed the sincerity of ...
... parties con- cerned in it . Sometimes , however , we find that men , careless of honors in their own persons , are glad to see them settling upon their family and immediate con- nections . But here again Augustus showed the sincerity of ...
Side 73
... behalf of one of the parties interested : nor was such an interference with the course of private justice any ways injurious to the great man's character . The wrong which he promoted did but the more forcibly proclaim THE CESARS . 73.
... behalf of one of the parties interested : nor was such an interference with the course of private justice any ways injurious to the great man's character . The wrong which he promoted did but the more forcibly proclaim THE CESARS . 73.
Side 74
... party at a wedding feast , where the crowd incommoded him much by their pressure and heat . But , doubtless , it happened to Augustus as to other men ; his spirits failed , and his powers of supporting fatigue or bustle , as years stole ...
... party at a wedding feast , where the crowd incommoded him much by their pressure and heat . But , doubtless , it happened to Augustus as to other men ; his spirits failed , and his powers of supporting fatigue or bustle , as years stole ...
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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.