Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons : Being Similar in Design to 'Elegant Extracts in Poetry'.J. Johnson, 1801 |
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Pàgina 632
... Rome fhould be fired in many places at once , and a maffacre begun at the fame time of the whole fenate and all their enemies , of whom none were to be fpared except the fons of Pompey , who were to be kept as hoftages of their peace ...
... Rome fhould be fired in many places at once , and a maffacre begun at the fame time of the whole fenate and all their enemies , of whom none were to be fpared except the fons of Pompey , who were to be kept as hoftages of their peace ...
Pàgina 633
... Rome ; upon which two knights of the company undertook to kill him the next morn- ing in his bed , in an early vifit on pretence of bufinefs . They were both of his acquaintance , and ufed to fre- quent his houfe ; and knowing his ...
... Rome ; upon which two knights of the company undertook to kill him the next morn- ing in his bed , in an early vifit on pretence of bufinefs . They were both of his acquaintance , and ufed to fre- quent his houfe ; and knowing his ...
Pàgina 634
... Rome , not so much on yourfelf in your audacious guilt . I could account of their own prefervation , as with with , confcript fathers , to be merciful ; I a view to baffle your defigns . Can you could with too not to appear remifs when ...
... Rome , not so much on yourfelf in your audacious guilt . I could account of their own prefervation , as with with , confcript fathers , to be merciful ; I a view to baffle your defigns . Can you could with too not to appear remifs when ...
Pàgina 635
... Rome , the lives of her citizens , and all the provinces of Italy , are doomed to flaughter and devaftation . Since therefore I dare not purfue that courfe , which is molt agreeable to ancient difcipline , and the genius of the common ...
... Rome , the lives of her citizens , and all the provinces of Italy , are doomed to flaughter and devaftation . Since therefore I dare not purfue that courfe , which is molt agreeable to ancient difcipline , and the genius of the common ...
Pàgina 636
... Rome ? and that this execrable and frantic defign was defeated , not by any awe or remorse in you , but by the pre- vailing good fortune of the people of Rome . But I pafs over thofe things , as being already well known : there are ...
... Rome ? and that this execrable and frantic defign was defeated , not by any awe or remorse in you , but by the pre- vailing good fortune of the people of Rome . But I pafs over thofe things , as being already well known : there are ...
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