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... affected , on every occasion , to adopt the language and principles of Patricians . In the administration of their own powers , they fre- quently consulted the great national council , and seemed to refer to its decision the most ...
... affected , on every occasion , to adopt the language and principles of Patricians . In the administration of their own powers , they fre- quently consulted the great national council , and seemed to refer to its decision the most ...
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... affected . ( 3 ) Augustus was therefore a personal , Casar a family distinction . The former should naturally have expired with the prince on whom it was bestowed ; and however the latter was diffused by adoption and female alli- ance ...
... affected . ( 3 ) Augustus was therefore a personal , Casar a family distinction . The former should naturally have expired with the prince on whom it was bestowed ; and however the latter was diffused by adoption and female alli- ance ...
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... affecting to despise them . ( 1 ) His excessive indulgence to his brother , his wife , and his son , ex- ceeded the bounds of private virtue , and became a public injury , by the example and consequences of their vices . Faustina , the ...
... affecting to despise them . ( 1 ) His excessive indulgence to his brother , his wife , and his son , ex- ceeded the bounds of private virtue , and became a public injury , by the example and consequences of their vices . Faustina , the ...
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... affected by the bloody scenes which were daily exhibited : that they would forget the death of Byr- rhus , a senator to whose superior merit the late emperor had granted one of his daughters ; and that they would forgive the execution ...
... affected by the bloody scenes which were daily exhibited : that they would forget the death of Byr- rhus , a senator to whose superior merit the late emperor had granted one of his daughters ; and that they would forgive the execution ...
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... affected to excel , in the elegant arts of music and poetry ; nor should we despise his pursuits , had he not converted the pleasing relaxation of a leisure hour into the serious business and ambition of his life . But Commodus , from ...
... affected to excel , in the elegant arts of music and poetry ; nor should we despise his pursuits , had he not converted the pleasing relaxation of a leisure hour into the serious business and ambition of his life . But Commodus , from ...
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