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Pagina 8
... authorities , and it was only when the province was completely exhausted that he left it . XI . ( The Ablative , continued . ) 1. Having been chosen by Caesar to be his legate in the province of Africa , he remained at Carthage for six ...
... authorities , and it was only when the province was completely exhausted that he left it . XI . ( The Ablative , continued . ) 1. Having been chosen by Caesar to be his legate in the province of Africa , he remained at Carthage for six ...
Pagina 11
... of great abilities and conspicuous virtue ; but he was destitute of the qualities by which alone in troublous times men can be either attached or con- trolled . 5. When the authority of the law has once been EXERCISES . II.
... of great abilities and conspicuous virtue ; but he was destitute of the qualities by which alone in troublous times men can be either attached or con- trolled . 5. When the authority of the law has once been EXERCISES . II.
Pagina 12
George Gilbert Ramsay. 5. When the authority of the law has once been broken , it is wise for a time rather to give way before the current of the popular will than to attempt to stem it . 6. Having been elected to the consulship , Caesar ...
George Gilbert Ramsay. 5. When the authority of the law has once been broken , it is wise for a time rather to give way before the current of the popular will than to attempt to stem it . 6. Having been elected to the consulship , Caesar ...
Pagina 66
... authority , and on the point of being plunged into all the miseries of civil war . But though his presence might have averted this calamity , he could not at that time visit Spain without endangering the imperial crown , and allowing ...
... authority , and on the point of being plunged into all the miseries of civil war . But though his presence might have averted this calamity , he could not at that time visit Spain without endangering the imperial crown , and allowing ...
Pagina 67
... authority of his Empire , it seemed plain that it was this man - and only he — who was bringing danger from the north . And at first , too , it seemed that within his range of action there was none who could be his equal : but in a ...
... authority of his Empire , it seemed plain that it was this man - and only he — who was bringing danger from the north . And at first , too , it seemed that within his range of action there was none who could be his equal : but in a ...
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Pagina 107 - Animated with all the avarice of age, and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another ; wave after wave ; and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Pagina 109 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family: I should have left a son who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in...
Pagina 77 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
Pagina 111 - Let us consider you, then, as arrived at the summit of worldly greatness; let us suppose that all your plans of avarice and ambition are accomplished, and your most sanguine wishes gratified, in the fear as well as the hatred of the people; can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life? Can gray hairs make folly venerable?
Pagina 106 - The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men (boys almost) govern there without society, and without sympathy with the natives. They have no more social habits with the people, than if they still resided in England, nor indeed any species of intercourse but that which is necessary to making a sudden fortune with a view to a remote settlement...
Pagina 79 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Pagina 107 - You ascended the throne with a declared, and, I doubt not, a sincere resolution of giving universal satisfaction to your subjects. You found them pleased with the novelty of a young prince, whose countenance promised even more than his words ; and loyal to you, not only from principle, but passion.
Pagina 89 - This was the practice of the Grecian stage. But Terence made an innovation in the Roman; all his plays have double actions, for it was his custom to translate two Greek comedies and to weave them...
Pagina 100 - It is noble to be capable of resigning entirely one's own portion of happiness, or chances of it; but, after all, this self-sacrifice must be for some end; it is not its own end, and if we are told that its end is not happiness...
Pagina 65 - The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave...