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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Side 6
... party in a well - considered measure of reform , and the Scipios had placed themselves under a tacit pledge to resist energetic measures . Their conduct was openly censured by Appius Claudius ; and his party seem to have re- * This was ...
... party in a well - considered measure of reform , and the Scipios had placed themselves under a tacit pledge to resist energetic measures . Their conduct was openly censured by Appius Claudius ; and his party seem to have re- * This was ...
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... party in a well - considered measure of reform , and the Scipios had placed themselves under a tacit pledge to resist energetic measures . Their conduct was openly censured by Appius Claudius ; and his party seem to have re- * This was ...
... party in a well - considered measure of reform , and the Scipios had placed themselves under a tacit pledge to resist energetic measures . Their conduct was openly censured by Appius Claudius ; and his party seem to have re- * This was ...
Side 16
... party was well aware that both were pre- paring to use force . On the day of the election , the first two tribes gave their votes for Tiberius Gracchus . The objection was at once made , that the same man could not be elected tribune ...
... party was well aware that both were pre- paring to use force . On the day of the election , the first two tribes gave their votes for Tiberius Gracchus . The objection was at once made , that the same man could not be elected tribune ...
Side 17
... party again interposed their veto . It seems that Gracchus now gave the signal for his partisans to drive off their opponents from the area , —whether before or after the intimation mentioned by Plutarch of the danger that threatened ...
... party again interposed their veto . It seems that Gracchus now gave the signal for his partisans to drive off their opponents from the area , —whether before or after the intimation mentioned by Plutarch of the danger that threatened ...
Side 20
... party of the nobles saw the necessity of executing the measure in good faith . We have seen how the hope that Scipio might compose the disorders of the state was disappointed by the part he took on his return from Spain ; but , though ...
... party of the nobles saw the necessity of executing the measure in good faith . We have seen how the hope that Scipio might compose the disorders of the state was disappointed by the part he took on his return from Spain ; but , though ...
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A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From ... Philip Smith Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1866 |
A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From ... Philip Smith Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1866 |
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Side 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.
Side 368 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people...
Side 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.
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 318 - Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic, had the Romans of their days been capable of enjoying a rational freedom.
Side 352 - But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Side 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.
Side 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.