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... continued to struggle , and to call out for help . At length , Brutus came forward and struck him with his sword on the leg . Cæsar instantly looked round , to see who had attacked him ; and after gazing mournfully at him for a moment ...
... continued to struggle , and to call out for help . At length , Brutus came forward and struck him with his sword on the leg . Cæsar instantly looked round , to see who had attacked him ; and after gazing mournfully at him for a moment ...
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... continued to love the Roman people , and to watch anxiously over their hap- piness ; but if he had guessed what a wicked and deceitful man Tiberius was , he doubtless would never have trusted him with the supreme power , which was ...
... continued to love the Roman people , and to watch anxiously over their hap- piness ; but if he had guessed what a wicked and deceitful man Tiberius was , he doubtless would never have trusted him with the supreme power , which was ...
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... continued partial to Britannicus . A soothsayer having prophesied that , if ever her son reigned at Rome , he would occasion her death , Agrippina replied , " Let Nero kill me , provided I but live to see him an emperor . " She would ...
... continued partial to Britannicus . A soothsayer having prophesied that , if ever her son reigned at Rome , he would occasion her death , Agrippina replied , " Let Nero kill me , provided I but live to see him an emperor . " She would ...
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... continued as proud and haughty as ever , so that Nero despaired at last of being able to subdue her , and resolved that she should die . His first attempt was to give the empress poison , but owing to her knowledge of medicine , she was ...
... continued as proud and haughty as ever , so that Nero despaired at last of being able to subdue her , and resolved that she should die . His first attempt was to give the empress poison , but owing to her knowledge of medicine , she was ...
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... continued inconsolable , and insisted upon sharing the fate of her husband , as she could not bear to survive him . Seneca tried for some time to dissuade her from this melancholy resolution ; but finding she was quite determined , he ...
... continued inconsolable , and insisted upon sharing the fate of her husband , as she could not bear to survive him . Seneca tried for some time to dissuade her from this melancholy resolution ; but finding she was quite determined , he ...
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Seite 99 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Seite 111 - I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them, also, that love His appearing.
Seite 152 - And just as he added at the last, "Woe, woe to myself also!
Seite 20 - Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them ; he came not to curse, but to bless us, by turning away every one of us from his iniquities.
Seite 122 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Seite 106 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Seite 180 - ... spite, however, of the edicts of the governing powers and the violence of the mob, the new faith continued to make progress. For some years prior to 1590, 10,000 natives were, it was reckoned, annually gained over to Christianity; and the state of affairs certainly seemed to prove the truth of the saying that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Seite 65 - O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?
Seite 180 - In the general, that there shall be such a happy period as the millennium, that ' the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High,' Dan. vii. 27. that Christ shall have ' the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession,
Seite 106 - Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you. All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.