A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From the triumvirate of Tiberius Gracchus to the fall of the Roman empireWalton and Maberly, 1864 |
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... force , is still one of the vexed questions of historical opinion . The Sempronian House yielded to few of the Roman Gentes in antiquity . Twelve years after the foundation of the Republic ( B.C. 497 ) , the consulship was held by A ...
... force , is still one of the vexed questions of historical opinion . The Sempronian House yielded to few of the Roman Gentes in antiquity . Twelve years after the foundation of the Republic ( B.C. 497 ) , the consulship was held by A ...
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... force should be needed on the morrow . As he left his house in the morning , he was met by a series of bad omens ; but Blossius of Cuma , who had tutored him in Greek philosophy , was at hand to fortify him against Roman superstition ...
... force should be needed on the morrow . As he left his house in the morning , he was met by a series of bad omens ; but Blossius of Cuma , who had tutored him in Greek philosophy , was at hand to fortify him against Roman superstition ...
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... force . Caius Gracchus also carried two laws regulating the management of the provincial revenues in the interest of his new allies , the Equites . One of these was a general law for the compensation of Publicani who might suffer losses ...
... force . Caius Gracchus also carried two laws regulating the management of the provincial revenues in the interest of his new allies , the Equites . One of these was a general law for the compensation of Publicani who might suffer losses ...
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... force the law of Pennus for driving away all who were not citi- zens . Gracchus promised his support to those who should disobey the edict ; but when the consul's lictors dragged away a friend of his before his eyes , he could offer no ...
... force the law of Pennus for driving away all who were not citi- zens . Gracchus promised his support to those who should disobey the edict ; but when the consul's lictors dragged away a friend of his before his eyes , he could offer no ...
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... forces as well as he could . In the morning , the cavalry of Jugurtha came pouring out of the town with all the disorder ... force with which Jugurtha still hovered about the fastnesses of the land , Marius turned his attention towards ...
... forces as well as he could . In the morning , the cavalry of Jugurtha came pouring out of the town with all the disorder ... force with which Jugurtha still hovered about the fastnesses of the land , Marius turned his attention towards ...
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A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From ... Philip Smith Visualização integral - 1866 |
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Página 167 - All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.
Página 368 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people...
Página 97 - Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Página 155 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition?
Página 155 - His legs bestrid the ocean ; his rear'd arm Crested the world ; his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.
Página 318 - Gibbon declares, in a memorable passage, that " if a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Página 318 - Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic, had the Romans of their days been capable of enjoying a rational freedom.
Página 352 - But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Página 351 - I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts : according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. For thus saith the Lord of hosts ; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come : and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Página 35 - Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.