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... observed be- fore , the chronology of these remote times is ex- tremely uncertain ) opening the scene by a deftruc- tion of at least one million of his species , unpro- voked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty ...
... observed be- fore , the chronology of these remote times is ex- tremely uncertain ) opening the scene by a deftruc- tion of at least one million of his species , unpro- voked but by his ambition , without any motives but pride , cruelty ...
Page 25
... observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallick , and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæfar alone , are ...
... observe little on the Servile , the Social , the Gallick , and Spanish wars ; nor upon those with Jugurtha , nor Antiochus , nor many others equally important , and carried on with equal fury . The butcheries of Julius Cæfar alone , are ...
Page 49
... observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , run- ning with a rage of folly into the fame mean and fenfeless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in their extravagance ...
... observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , run- ning with a rage of folly into the fame mean and fenfeless debauchery and extravagance ? But if this people resembled Nero in their extravagance ...
Page 50
... Observe , my Lord , that the five thousand we here speak of , were cut off from a body of no more than nineteen thousand ; for the entire number of citizens was no greater at that time . Could the tyrant who wished the Roman people but ...
... Observe , my Lord , that the five thousand we here speak of , were cut off from a body of no more than nineteen thousand ; for the entire number of citizens was no greater at that time . Could the tyrant who wished the Roman people but ...
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... observed , is no one species of go- vernment , but a magazine of every species ; here you find every fort of it , and that in the worst form . As there is a perpetual change , one rifing and the other falling , you have all the violence ...
... observed , is no one species of go- vernment , but a magazine of every species ; here you find every fort of it , and that in the worst form . As there is a perpetual change , one rifing and the other falling , you have all the violence ...
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