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... officers , under the name of Ediles . Some time afterward , they began to lay claim to the right of convening assemblies of the people , and even of procuring laws to be passed without the recommendation of the Senate . For several ...
... officers , under the name of Ediles . Some time afterward , they began to lay claim to the right of convening assemblies of the people , and even of procuring laws to be passed without the recommendation of the Senate . For several ...
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... officers , and to vest the whole power for a season in the hands of new magis- trates under the name of Decemvirs . The date of this unfortunate experiment in government was the year of the city 303. It deserves to be recorded that the ...
... officers , and to vest the whole power for a season in the hands of new magis- trates under the name of Decemvirs . The date of this unfortunate experiment in government was the year of the city 303. It deserves to be recorded that the ...
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... officers who were to be eligible out of either branch of the community . The plebeians accepted the offer , and the nomination of the new commanders took place in course : but such was the influence of property , and of family , that ...
... officers who were to be eligible out of either branch of the community . The plebeians accepted the offer , and the nomination of the new commanders took place in course : but such was the influence of property , and of family , that ...
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... officers of the state ; which important power , as well as the still more essential prerogative of legislation , was reserved by the people in their own hands . In consequence of this for- tunate distribution of authority , it became ...
... officers of the state ; which important power , as well as the still more essential prerogative of legislation , was reserved by the people in their own hands . In consequence of this for- tunate distribution of authority , it became ...
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... officers , were the causes which kept the senators honest , produced so many instances of disinterested patriotism , and brought into the public offices an unin- terrupted succession of men of greater worth than have appeared in the ...
... officers , were the causes which kept the senators honest , produced so many instances of disinterested patriotism , and brought into the public offices an unin- terrupted succession of men of greater worth than have appeared in the ...
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Page 236 - And I will combat with weak Menelaus, And wear thy colours on my plumed crest; Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars...
Page 229 - In perusing a corrupted piece he must have before him all possibilities of meaning, with all possibilities of expression. Such must be his comprehension of thought, and such his copiousness of language. Out of many readings possible he must be able to select that which best suits with the state, opinions, and modes of language prevailing in every age, and with his authour's particular cast of thought and turn of expression. Such must be his knowledge, and such his taste.
Page 150 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 230 - Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually ! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul ! O lente, lente, currite noctis equi!
Page 87 - A high demeanour, and a glance that took Their thoughts from others by a single look ; And that sarcastic levity of tongue, The stinging of a heart the world hath stung...
Page 236 - Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place ; for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be: And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not heaven.
Page 151 - In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the council of his own will...
Page 311 - PENN: I ask, if it be according to the Fundamental Laws of England, that any Englishman should be Fined or Amerced, but by the Judgment of his Peers or Jury; since it expressly contradicts the fourteenth and twenty-ninth Chapters of the great Charter of England, which say, No Free-man ought to be amerced, but by the Oath of good and Lawful Men of the Vicinage.
Page 236 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul — see where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips And all is dross that is not Helena.
Page 219 - Christ will be contemporaneous with what is commonly called ' the day of judgment,' or ' the day of the Lord," a term descriptive, not of the ordinary period of twentyfour hours, but the day foretold, and appropriate to him with whom ' one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.