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... happen to make them quarrel . But as easily But as easily as people put away their clothes when they are worn out , did Cæsar shake off his old friends as soon as they were no longer of use to him . Cicero was the first who seemed to ...
... happen to make them quarrel . But as easily But as easily as people put away their clothes when they are worn out , did Cæsar shake off his old friends as soon as they were no longer of use to him . Cicero was the first who seemed to ...
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... happen to make Cæsar his enemy ; but people who are ambitious cannot bear any to be equal to them ; and it is still worse , in their opinion , to see a single person their superior . Cæsar had , therefore , long ago determined never to ...
... happen to make Cæsar his enemy ; but people who are ambitious cannot bear any to be equal to them ; and it is still worse , in their opinion , to see a single person their superior . Cæsar had , therefore , long ago determined never to ...
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... happen to him but good fortune . After considering for a long time what it would be best to do , Cæsar resolved at last that he would go to Rome accord- ing to his own wishes ; and he hoped that enough of his friends would be there to ...
... happen to him but good fortune . After considering for a long time what it would be best to do , Cæsar resolved at last that he would go to Rome accord- ing to his own wishes ; and he hoped that enough of his friends would be there to ...
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... happen in future by consulting the stars , and were often made miserable if the moon went behind a cloud , when they thought it would have seemed more lucky had it shone out more brightly , forgetting that its face looked as dark to ...
... happen in future by consulting the stars , and were often made miserable if the moon went behind a cloud , when they thought it would have seemed more lucky had it shone out more brightly , forgetting that its face looked as dark to ...
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... happen next , these soothsayers always performed some grand ceremonies , to impress people's minds with the importance of what they were going to say . They killed animals , and while these were scarcely yet dead , they were cut open ...
... happen next , these soothsayers always performed some grand ceremonies , to impress people's minds with the importance of what they were going to say . They killed animals , and while these were scarcely yet dead , they were cut open ...
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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.