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... mean what he said ; so they thought it a very droll jest of Cæsar's , and laughed heartily at what he said , though they afterwards discovered , to their surprise and sorrow , that he was really in earnest . Cæsar joined in all the ...
... mean what he said ; so they thought it a very droll jest of Cæsar's , and laughed heartily at what he said , though they afterwards discovered , to their surprise and sorrow , that he was really in earnest . Cæsar joined in all the ...
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... means of his talents and power . Pompey was a much handsomer man than Cæsar , and there was an air of princely dignity in his whole appearance which struck all persons with awe when they approached him . He was very kind to Cæsar , and ...
... means of his talents and power . Pompey was a much handsomer man than Cæsar , and there was an air of princely dignity in his whole appearance which struck all persons with awe when they approached him . He was very kind to Cæsar , and ...
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... mean to run away , he wheeled him round , saying , " Look on this side for your enemy ! " Another time , his soldiers were very nearly defeated by a nation called the Nervii , who first concealed their wives and children , and all their ...
... mean to run away , he wheeled him round , saying , " Look on this side for your enemy ! " Another time , his soldiers were very nearly defeated by a nation called the Nervii , who first concealed their wives and children , and all their ...
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... that it is impossible to draw back , he is apt to say , " I have crossed the Rubicon . " This does not mean that he has really been on the river which Cæsar passed over , but merely that he has decided 36 ANECDOTES OF THE CÆSARS . 338.
... that it is impossible to draw back , he is apt to say , " I have crossed the Rubicon . " This does not mean that he has really been on the river which Cæsar passed over , but merely that he has decided 36 ANECDOTES OF THE CÆSARS . 338.
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... mean time , Cæsar had never before been opposed to a general as brave and as skilful as himself , so that he was not on this occasion so constantly victorious as he had been formerly . Several battles took place between his army and ...
... mean time , Cæsar had never before been opposed to a general as brave and as skilful as himself , so that he was not on this occasion so constantly victorious as he had been formerly . Several battles took place between his army and ...
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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.