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Side 116
... severe in their habits could thus rapidly degenerate , and that a populace , once so hardy and masculine , should assume the manners which we might expect in the debauchees of Daphne ( the infamous suburb of Antioch ) or of Canopus ...
... severe in their habits could thus rapidly degenerate , and that a populace , once so hardy and masculine , should assume the manners which we might expect in the debauchees of Daphne ( the infamous suburb of Antioch ) or of Canopus ...
Side 117
... severity . Juvenal is to be understood more literally than is sometimes supposed , when he complains that long before his time the Orontes ( that river which washed the infamous capital of Syria ) had mingled its impure waters with ...
... severity . Juvenal is to be understood more literally than is sometimes supposed , when he complains that long before his time the Orontes ( that river which washed the infamous capital of Syria ) had mingled its impure waters with ...
Side 136
... severe charac- ter of " war in procinct . " 26 Hardly would he allow himself an ivory hilt to his sabre . The same severe proscription he extended to every sort of furniture , or decorations of art , which sheltered even in the bosom of ...
... severe charac- ter of " war in procinct . " 26 Hardly would he allow himself an ivory hilt to his sabre . The same severe proscription he extended to every sort of furniture , or decorations of art , which sheltered even in the bosom of ...
Side 160
... severe , and a diet of too little nutriment . In fact , his whole heart was set upon philosophic attainments , and perhaps upon philosophic glory . All the great philosophers of his own time , whether Stoic or Peripatetic , and amongst ...
... severe , and a diet of too little nutriment . In fact , his whole heart was set upon philosophic attainments , and perhaps upon philosophic glory . All the great philosophers of his own time , whether Stoic or Peripatetic , and amongst ...
Side 171
... severe disciplinarian . The well known enormities of the neighboring Daphne gave him ample opportunities for the exercise of his harsh propensities in reforming the dissolute soldiery . He amputated heads , arms , feet , and hams : THE ...
... severe disciplinarian . The well known enormities of the neighboring Daphne gave him ample opportunities for the exercise of his harsh propensities in reforming the dissolute soldiery . He amputated heads , arms , feet , and hams : THE ...
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