An Enquiry into the Principles of Human Happiness and Human DutyPickering, 1843 - 554 Seiten |
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... Tacitus as having gained as much reputation by killing himself as he had lost by the murder of Galba . This too was at a time when his affairs were by no means desperate . Moreover the exposure of infants was practised , without remorse ...
... Tacitus as having gained as much reputation by killing himself as he had lost by the murder of Galba . This too was at a time when his affairs were by no means desperate . Moreover the exposure of infants was practised , without remorse ...
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... Tacitus , which , for the credit of human nature , I must believe to be a great exaggeration . So far as brothers are liable to jealousy , there is truth in the observation , for hate is an element of this passion . The first murder was ...
... Tacitus , which , for the credit of human nature , I must believe to be a great exaggeration . So far as brothers are liable to jealousy , there is truth in the observation , for hate is an element of this passion . The first murder was ...
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... nothing has such an effect on the character ; and by it dispositions naturally amiable have often been so changed as not to be known for the same . Tacitus says that Vespasian was the only prince OF POWER OR AMBITION . 203.
... nothing has such an effect on the character ; and by it dispositions naturally amiable have often been so changed as not to be known for the same . Tacitus says that Vespasian was the only prince OF POWER OR AMBITION . 203.
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In Two Books George Ramsay. same . Tacitus says that Vespasian was the only prince who had ever grown better in the exercise of supreme power ; but if we add Gelon of Syracuse , we shall probably be at a loss for a third : while examples ...
In Two Books George Ramsay. same . Tacitus says that Vespasian was the only prince who had ever grown better in the exercise of supreme power ; but if we add Gelon of Syracuse , we shall probably be at a loss for a third : while examples ...
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... Tacitus for instance tells us casually that Agrippina , on visiting Tiberius , found him offering a sacrifice to his father , who is not rapidly transported back to pagan Rome , to a scene very different from the present ? Moreover this ...
... Tacitus for instance tells us casually that Agrippina , on visiting Tiberius , found him offering a sacrifice to his father , who is not rapidly transported back to pagan Rome , to a scene very different from the present ? Moreover this ...
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