Selections from the First Five Books of [his] Roman History, with the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Books Entire

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D. Appleton and Company, 1873
 

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Pàgina 277 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Pàgina 364 - Curtius: Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great. Edited and illustrated with English Notes, by WILLIAM HKNRY CKOSBT.
Pàgina 61 - Data venia seducit filiam ac nutricem prope Cloacinae ad tabernas quibus nunc novis est nomen atque ibi ab lanio cultro arrepto, " Hoc te uno quo possum" ait "modo, filia, in libertatem vindico." Pectus deinde puellae transfigit respectansque ad tribunal "Te" inquit, "Appi, tuumque caput sanguine hoc consecro.
Pàgina 15 - luppiter; audi, pater patrate populi Albani; audi tu, populus Albanus. Ut illa palam prima postrema ex illis tabulis cerave recitata sunt sine dolo malo, utique ea hic hodie rectissime intellecta sunt, illis legibus populus Romanus prior non deficiet.
Pàgina 8 - Romanis, caelestes ita velle, ut mea Roma caput orbis terrarum sit: proinde rem militarem colant, sciantque et ita posteris tradant nullas opes humanas armis Romanis resistere posse.
Pàgina 68 - ... qua lege tribuniciis rogationibus telum acerrimum datum est. Aliam deinde 25 consularem legem de provocatione — unicum prsesidium libertatis — decemvirali potestate eversam, non restituunt modo, sed etiam in posterum muniunt, sanciendo novam legem, ne quis ullum magistratum sine provocatione crearet: qui creasset, eum jus fasque esset occidi, neve ea 30 csedes capitalis noхse haberetur.
Pàgina 364 - Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War. With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory ; a Lexicon, Geographical and Historical Indexes, a Map of Gaul, etc. By Rev. JA SPENCER, DD 12mo, 408 pages. In the preparation of this volume, great care has been taken to adapt It In every...
Pàgina 348 - Capitol may well have trembled in every limb on that day, and have drooped her wings, as if forever ; but Hannibal came not ; and if panic had for one moment unnerved the iron courage of the Roman aristocracy, on the next their inborn spirit revived ; and their resolute will, striving beyond its present power, created, as is the law of our nature, the power which it required.
Pàgina 20 - Priscorum Latinorum hominesque Prisci Latini adversus populum Romanum Quiritium fecerunt, deliquerunt, quod populus Romanus Quiritium bellum cum Priscis Latinis iussit esse senatusque populi Romani Quiritium censuit, consensit, conscivit, ut bellum cum Priscis Latinis fieret, ob eam rem ego populusque Romanus populis Priscorum Latinorum hominibusque Priscis Latinis bellum indico facioque.
Pàgina 17 - Capenam fuit : cognitoque super humeros fratris paludamento sponsi, quod ipsa confecerat, solvit crines, et flebiliter nomine sponsum mortuum appellat. Movet feroci juveni animum comploratio sororis, in victoria sua, tantoque gaudio publico. Stricto itaque gladio, simul verbis increpans, transfigit puellam. Abi hinc cum immaturo amore ad sponsum, inquit, oblita fratrum mortuorum, vivique, oblita patriae.

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