An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind |
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Page 138
... Romans by the Emperor Trajan . It revolted under its prince Odenai- hus - but this prince being slain by his nephew ... Roman garrison left in Palmyra . A sec- ond revolt provoked Aurelian to destroy the city , and in this catastrophy ...
... Romans by the Emperor Trajan . It revolted under its prince Odenai- hus - but this prince being slain by his nephew ... Roman garrison left in Palmyra . A sec- ond revolt provoked Aurelian to destroy the city , and in this catastrophy ...
Page 155
... Roman senate upon their coming under the protection of the commonwealth , nor of the natural and unalienable rights of men . 9. His nod has decided all causes in Sicily these three years ; and his decisions have broken all law , all ...
... Roman senate upon their coming under the protection of the commonwealth , nor of the natural and unalienable rights of men . 9. His nod has decided all causes in Sicily these three years ; and his decisions have broken all law , all ...
Page 156
... Roman citizens to be strangled in the goals ; so that the exclamation , “ I am a citizen of Rome , " which has often in the most distant regions and a- mong the most barbarous people , been a protection , was of no service to them , but ...
... Roman citizens to be strangled in the goals ; so that the exclamation , “ I am a citizen of Rome , " which has often in the most distant regions and a- mong the most barbarous people , been a protection , was of no service to them , but ...
Page 157
... Roman citizenship ! - Once sacred , now trampled upon ! But what then ! Is it come to this ? 20. Shall an inferior magistrate , a governor who holds his own power of the Roman people , in a Roman province , within sight of Italy , bind ...
... Roman citizenship ! - Once sacred , now trampled upon ! But what then ! Is it come to this ? 20. Shall an inferior magistrate , a governor who holds his own power of the Roman people , in a Roman province , within sight of Italy , bind ...
Page 158
... Roman citizen , was made king of Rome , 5. The Elder Tarquin , by birth not even Italian , was nevertheless placed upon the throne . Servius Tullius , the son of a captive woman ( nobody knows who his father was ) obtained the kingdom ...
... Roman citizen , was made king of Rome , 5. The Elder Tarquin , by birth not even Italian , was nevertheless placed upon the throne . Servius Tullius , the son of a captive woman ( nobody knows who his father was ) obtained the kingdom ...
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