The Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1864 |
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... never digress to read a lecture , moral or political , upon his own text , nor enter into men's hearts further than the actions themselves evidently guide him , is yet accounted the most politic historiographer that ever writ . The ...
... never digress to read a lecture , moral or political , upon his own text , nor enter into men's hearts further than the actions themselves evidently guide him , is yet accounted the most politic historiographer that ever writ . The ...
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... never crossed the Vindius into the terri- tory of the Cantabri or the modern Asturias , and that if he had crossed , he would never have returned . This was the end of a war begun contrary to Roman prac- tice without the authority of ...
... never crossed the Vindius into the terri- tory of the Cantabri or the modern Asturias , and that if he had crossed , he would never have returned . This was the end of a war begun contrary to Roman prac- tice without the authority of ...
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... never flinched before an adversary . He was an indefatigable worker , with some roughness of tongue and harshness of character , with a strong body and a strong mind , and such a man though he has the highest virtues is not the most ...
... never flinched before an adversary . He was an indefatigable worker , with some roughness of tongue and harshness of character , with a strong body and a strong mind , and such a man though he has the highest virtues is not the most ...
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... never escapes the charge of being grasping or avaricious . With some great faults , and many great virtues , we must pronounce him one of the most illustrious of the distin- guished men whom the Roman aristocratical system pro- duced ...
... never escapes the charge of being grasping or avaricious . With some great faults , and many great virtues , we must pronounce him one of the most illustrious of the distin- guished men whom the Roman aristocratical system pro- duced ...
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... never scruple to add any thing to embellish a sentence . It was now necessary to conduct the Spanish war in a different way , or the Romans might be driven out of Spain . The consuls for the year B.c. 145 were Q. Fabius Maximus ...
... never scruple to add any thing to embellish a sentence . It was now necessary to conduct the Spanish war in a different way , or the Romans might be driven out of Spain . The consuls for the year B.c. 145 were Q. Fabius Maximus ...
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