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Side 26
... whole gallery of those who follow , we can undertake that the memorials which we shall bring forward , may be looked upon as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book . 6 CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar ...
... whole gallery of those who follow , we can undertake that the memorials which we shall bring forward , may be looked upon as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book . 6 CHAPTER I. THE character of the first Cæsar ...
Side 28
... whole genus . The Attilas and the Tamerlanes , who rejoice in avowing themselves the scourges of God , and the special instruments of his wrath , have no one feature of affinity to the polished and humane Cæsar , and would as little ...
... whole genus . The Attilas and the Tamerlanes , who rejoice in avowing themselves the scourges of God , and the special instruments of his wrath , have no one feature of affinity to the polished and humane Cæsar , and would as little ...
Side 31
... whole class of active forces in human nature , as contradistinguished from those which tend to con- templative purposes , under any circumstances , to have become a profound believer , or a steadfast reposer of his fears and anxieties ...
... whole class of active forces in human nature , as contradistinguished from those which tend to con- templative purposes , under any circumstances , to have become a profound believer , or a steadfast reposer of his fears and anxieties ...
Side 32
... whole extent of its characteristics , tend entirely to estrange him from such themes . We find , accordingly , that though sincerely a despiser of superstition , and with a frankness which must sometimes have been hazardous in that age ...
... whole extent of its characteristics , tend entirely to estrange him from such themes . We find , accordingly , that though sincerely a despiser of superstition , and with a frankness which must sometimes have been hazardous in that age ...
Side 33
... himself , or a sprig of laurel which he bore in his mouth , could not be determined . The whole train , pursuers and pursued , continued their flight towards 3 THE CESARS . 33 Yet again we are reminded that it was the weakness ...
... himself , or a sprig of laurel which he bore in his mouth , could not be determined . The whole train , pursuers and pursued , continued their flight towards 3 THE CESARS . 33 Yet again we are reminded that it was the weakness ...
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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.