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... soldiers , supplied new arguments to the advocates of monarchy and these general views of government were again warped by the hopes and fears of each individual . Amidst this confusion of sentiments , the answer of the senate was ...
... soldiers , supplied new arguments to the advocates of monarchy and these general views of government were again warped by the hopes and fears of each individual . Amidst this confusion of sentiments , the answer of the senate was ...
Side 38
... soldiers , the enemies , and the subjects of the republic . With regard to the soldiers , the jealousy of freedom had , even from the earliest ages of Rome , given way to the hopes of conquest , and a just sense of military discipline ...
... soldiers , the enemies , and the subjects of the republic . With regard to the soldiers , the jealousy of freedom had , even from the earliest ages of Rome , given way to the hopes of conquest , and a just sense of military discipline ...
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... soldiers , was , at any time , able to execute . How precarious was his own authority over men whom he had taught to violate every social duty ! He had heard their seditious clamours ; he dreaded their calmer moments of reflection . One ...
... soldiers , was , at any time , able to execute . How precarious was his own authority over men whom he had taught to violate every social duty ! He had heard their seditious clamours ; he dreaded their calmer moments of reflection . One ...
Side 44
... soldiers were seldom roused to that fatal sense of their own strength , and of the weakness of the civil authority , which was , before and afterwards , productive of such dreadful calamities . Caligula and Domitian were assassinated in ...
... soldiers were seldom roused to that fatal sense of their own strength , and of the weakness of the civil authority , which was , before and afterwards , productive of such dreadful calamities . Caligula and Domitian were assassinated in ...
Side 45
... soldiers , family from Flavius , the founder of Reate ( his native country ) , and one of the companions of Hercules Suet . in Vespasian , c . 12 . ( 1 ) Dion , I. Ixvii . p . 1121. Plin . Secund . in panegyric . ( 2 ) Felicior Augusto ...
... soldiers , family from Flavius , the founder of Reate ( his native country ) , and one of the companions of Hercules Suet . in Vespasian , c . 12 . ( 1 ) Dion , I. Ixvii . p . 1121. Plin . Secund . in panegyric . ( 2 ) Felicior Augusto ...
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