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... merit , as it is admirably expressed by Tacitus , was , in the strictest sense of the word , imperatoria virtus . f Cæsar himself conceals that ignoble motive ; but it is mentioned by Suetonius , c . 47. The British pearls proved ...
... merit , as it is admirably expressed by Tacitus , was , in the strictest sense of the word , imperatoria virtus . f Cæsar himself conceals that ignoble motive ; but it is mentioned by Suetonius , c . 47. The British pearls proved ...
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... merit for her own wheresoever they were found , among slaves or strangers , enemies or barbarians . " During the most flourishing æra of the Athenian commonwealth , the number of citizens gradually decreased from about thirty * to ...
... merit for her own wheresoever they were found , among slaves or strangers , enemies or barbarians . " During the most flourishing æra of the Athenian commonwealth , the number of citizens gradually decreased from about thirty * to ...
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... merit had raised him , in an advanced age , to the empire ; but his merit was rather useful than shining , and his virtues were dis- graced by a strict and even sordid parsimony . Such a prince consulted his true interest by the associa ...
... merit had raised him , in an advanced age , to the empire ; but his merit was rather useful than shining , and his virtues were dis- graced by a strict and even sordid parsimony . Such a prince consulted his true interest by the associa ...
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... merit , the freedom of complaint , and perhaps the means of revenge . But the empire of the Ro- mans filled the world , and when that empire fell into the hands of a single person , the world became a safe and dreary prison for his ...
... merit , the freedom of complaint , and perhaps the means of revenge . But the empire of the Ro- mans filled the world , and when that empire fell into the hands of a single person , the world became a safe and dreary prison for his ...
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... merit and unshaken loyalty ; but among the crowd of her lovers ( for she imitated the manners of Faustina ) she found men of desperate fortunes and wild ambition , who were prepared to serve her more violent , as well as her tender ...
... merit and unshaken loyalty ; but among the crowd of her lovers ( for she imitated the manners of Faustina ) she found men of desperate fortunes and wild ambition , who were prepared to serve her more violent , as well as her tender ...
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