The Rubicon; Or, Historical Allusions Familiarized,: In Sketches of Early Roman HistoryJ. Souter, School Library, 73, St. Paul's Churchyard., 1830 - 171 страници |
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... saved himself , his father , and his little son , from the flames which destroyed the city of Troy , and with a small band of his countrymen settled in a city of Italy ; this city was called Alba . One of the kings of Alba , named ...
... saved himself , his father , and his little son , from the flames which destroyed the city of Troy , and with a small band of his countrymen settled in a city of Italy ; this city was called Alba . One of the kings of Alba , named ...
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... saved my country . " " Alas ! my dear Anne , if you pity the Victor now , I know not what you will do when the story is ended ; Philip , you must tell the whole . " " Mamma , I have no pleasure in telling the remainder , but I will ...
... saved my country . " " Alas ! my dear Anne , if you pity the Victor now , I know not what you will do when the story is ended ; Philip , you must tell the whole . " " Mamma , I have no pleasure in telling the remainder , but I will ...
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... saved . All this had a great effect upon the people , when a fresh charge was brought against him by the contrivance of one of the Tribunes , G and he was immediately sentenced to perpetual banishment . " THE RUBICON . 61.
... saved . All this had a great effect upon the people , when a fresh charge was brought against him by the contrivance of one of the Tribunes , G and he was immediately sentenced to perpetual banishment . " THE RUBICON . 61.
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... saved Rome , but lost thy son , ' he gave orders to draw off his army , pretending that the city was too strong to be taken . Tullus , who had long envied his success , represented his conduct in the worst light to THE RUBICON . 63.
... saved Rome , but lost thy son , ' he gave orders to draw off his army , pretending that the city was too strong to be taken . Tullus , who had long envied his success , represented his conduct in the worst light to THE RUBICON . 63.
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... saved their country . The next remarkable circumstance was an attempt made by Spurius Cassius Viscellinus , who had commanded the army , and defeated the Volscians , to ingratiate himself with the poorer classes of the people , by ...
... saved their country . The next remarkable circumstance was an attempt made by Spurius Cassius Viscellinus , who had commanded the army , and defeated the Volscians , to ingratiate himself with the poorer classes of the people , by ...
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Страница 114 - ... the efficient ally of the Romans in the last campaign of the war, all the territory which she had wrested from him. Carthage also gave up her fleet and her elephants to the Romans, and agreed to pay to Rome a yearly tribute of two hundred talents, and bound herself to enter upon no war in the future without the consent of the Romans. Thus ended the Second Punic War, after a continuance of seventeen years (BC 218201), in the humiliation of Carthage, which now virtually lost her national independence...
Страница 12 - How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot...
Страница 41 - Thus resolved, they all for some time showed their spirit, and kept their word ; but soon they found, that instead of mortifying the belly by these means, they only undid themselves ; they languished for a while, and perceived, when too late, that it was owing to the belly that they had strength to work, or courage to mutiny.
Страница 90 - Fabricius, it would be as easy to turn the sun from his course as thee from the path of honor ! " In gratitude for the noble conduct of Fabricius and the Roman Senate, Pyrrhus immediately sent Cineas to Rome with his thanks, and at once released all the Romans whom he had taken prisoners, and sent them home rich with presents. The Romans, nevertheless, still firmly...
Страница 82 - The last good kins; whom willing Rome obey'd Was the poor offspring of a captive maid ; Yet he those robes of empire justly bore, Which Romulus, our sacred founder, wore: Nicely he gain'd, and well possest the throne, Not for his father's merit, but his own, And reign'd, himself a family alone. When...
Страница 47 - ... dream, he flew to take up his mother, who had fallen at his feet, crying out, " Oh ! my mother, thou hast saved Rome, but lost thy son." He accordingly gave orders to draw off the army, pretending to the officers, that the city was too strong to be taken. Tullus, who had long envied Coriolanus, was not remiss in aggravating the lenity of his conduct to his countrymen.