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Side 56
... tion of business or of pleasure , as to Rome on occasion of these spectacles exhibited by Cæsar . In our days , the greatest occasional gatherings of the human race are in India , especially at the great fair of the Hurdwar , in the ...
... tion of business or of pleasure , as to Rome on occasion of these spectacles exhibited by Cæsar . In our days , the greatest occasional gatherings of the human race are in India , especially at the great fair of the Hurdwar , in the ...
Side 63
... tion , and spoke of him always by his family name of Octavius . The flattery of the populace , by the way , must , in this instance , have been doubly accept- able to the emperor , first , for what it gave , and secondly , for what it ...
... tion , and spoke of him always by his family name of Octavius . The flattery of the populace , by the way , must , in this instance , have been doubly accept- able to the emperor , first , for what it gave , and secondly , for what it ...
Side 70
... tion of mind , the very narrowest visual range . In no literature whatsoever are so few tolerable notices to be found of any great truths in Psychology . Nor could this have been otherwise amongst a people who tried every thing by the ...
... tion of mind , the very narrowest visual range . In no literature whatsoever are so few tolerable notices to be found of any great truths in Psychology . Nor could this have been otherwise amongst a people who tried every thing by the ...
Side 72
... tion of feeling , we are almost obliged to consider as a genuine and unaffected expression of his real nature ; for , as an artifice of policy , it had soon lost its uses . And it is worthy of notice , that with the army he laid aside ...
... tion of feeling , we are almost obliged to consider as a genuine and unaffected expression of his real nature ; for , as an artifice of policy , it had soon lost its uses . And it is worthy of notice , that with the army he laid aside ...
Side 76
... tion , but really as pledges for their parents ' fidelity , and also with a view to the large reversionary advan- tages which might be expected to arise upon the basis of so early and affectionate a connection . But it is not the less ...
... tion , but really as pledges for their parents ' fidelity , and also with a view to the large reversionary advan- tages which might be expected to arise upon the basis of so early and affectionate a connection . But it is not the less ...
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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.