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... reached the senators who were assembled in the Temple of Faith . P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica , a man of the highest nobility , of great landed property , and of a stern and determined temper , called upon P. Mucius , the consul , to take ...
... reached the senators who were assembled in the Temple of Faith . P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica , a man of the highest nobility , of great landed property , and of a stern and determined temper , called upon P. Mucius , the consul , to take ...
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... reaching the shore , had not his illegitimate sister , the Countess of Perche , now struggling with death in the larger vessel , implored her brother's assistance ; shrieking out that he should not abandon her so barbarously . Touched ...
... reaching the shore , had not his illegitimate sister , the Countess of Perche , now struggling with death in the larger vessel , implored her brother's assistance ; shrieking out that he should not abandon her so barbarously . Touched ...
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... reached Capua Hannibal was already gone ; his camp - fires had been seen burning as usual all night in his accustomed position on Tifata ; but he had begun his march the preceding evening , immediately after dark , while the Romans ...
... reached Capua Hannibal was already gone ; his camp - fires had been seen burning as usual all night in his accustomed position on Tifata ; but he had begun his march the preceding evening , immediately after dark , while the Romans ...
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... reaching the enemy , and attacking them at break of day . About half - way between the camps there were some undulations of the ground , which concealed the two armies from each other's view . But , on Alexander's arriving at their ...
... reaching the enemy , and attacking them at break of day . About half - way between the camps there were some undulations of the ground , which concealed the two armies from each other's view . But , on Alexander's arriving at their ...
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... reached the summit un- perceived and at an hour which had been agreed on , when Maurice began the assault on the one side of the castle , they appeared on the other , ready to scale the walls , which were feeble in that place , because ...
... reached the summit un- perceived and at an hour which had been agreed on , when Maurice began the assault on the one side of the castle , they appeared on the other , ready to scale the walls , which were feeble in that place , because ...
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Page 7 - Persius. The Satires. With a Translation and Commentary. By John Conington, MA, late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edited by H. Nettleship, MA Second Edition.
Page 52 - Upon looking up, what mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I See vultures...
Page 79 - But the answer was that nothing could be done" without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Page 42 - At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them. Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.
Page 52 - is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now," said he, "this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it." "I see a bridge," said I, "standing in the midst of the tide.
Page 51 - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, ' Mirza,' said he, ' I have heard thee in thy soliloquies ; follow me.
Page 53 - on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Page 135 - Praise, said the sage, with a sigh, is to an old man an empty sound. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her son, nor wife to partake the honours of her husband.
Page 131 - should you envy others so great an advantage ? All skill ought to be exerted for universal good ; every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindness that he has received.
Page 82 - Such an extent of cultivated territory, such an amount of revenue, such a multitude of subjects, was never added to the dominion of Rome by the most successful proconsul. Nor were such wealthy spoils ever borne under arches of triumph, down the Sacred Way, and through the crowded Forum, to the threshold of Tarpeian Jove.