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... possible , and as long as possible , he declined — there could be little question in any man's mind , that eventually he would win his way to a solitary throne , by a policy so full of caution and subtlety . He was sure to risk nothing ...
... possible , and as long as possible , he declined — there could be little question in any man's mind , that eventually he would win his way to a solitary throne , by a policy so full of caution and subtlety . He was sure to risk nothing ...
Side 72
... possible , addressing them as milites , not ( according to his earlier practice ) as commilitones . It concerned his own security , to be jealous of encroachments on his power . But of his rank , and the honors which accompanied it , he ...
... possible , addressing them as milites , not ( according to his earlier practice ) as commilitones . It concerned his own security , to be jealous of encroachments on his power . But of his rank , and the honors which accompanied it , he ...
Side 73
... possible title to public favor from present power or past services . But , perhaps by no expressions of his civic spirit did Augustus so much conciliate men's minds , as by the readiness with which he participated in their social ...
... possible title to public favor from present power or past services . But , perhaps by no expressions of his civic spirit did Augustus so much conciliate men's minds , as by the readiness with which he participated in their social ...
Side 81
... possible plans of escape from the impending danger , thought at intervals of throwing himself on the protection of the barbarous King Vologesus . And twenty years afterwards , when the Pseudo - Nero appeared , he found a strenuous cham ...
... possible plans of escape from the impending danger , thought at intervals of throwing himself on the protection of the barbarous King Vologesus . And twenty years afterwards , when the Pseudo - Nero appeared , he found a strenuous cham ...
Side 85
... possible , except in the cases of those ( if any such can be named ) who have abused the same enormous powers in times of the same civility , and in defiance of the same general illumination . But for them it is a fact , than some ...
... possible , except in the cases of those ( if any such can be named ) who have abused the same enormous powers in times of the same civility , and in defiance of the same general illumination . But for them it is a fact , than some ...
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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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