An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History, Volume 2

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J. W. Parker and Son, 1855 - Historiography

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Page 438 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 597 - Letters and Life of Francis Bacon, including all his Occasional Works. Collected and edited, with a Commentary, by J.
Page 45 - Ecce Sabinorum prisco de sanguine magnum agmen agens Clausus magnique ipse agminis instar, Claudia nunc a quo diffunditur et tribus et gens per Latium, postquam in partem data Roma Sabinis.
Page 490 - C<esar, ought at once to be admitted as valid and worthy of credence. What Mr. Clinton here calls the early tradition, is in point of fact, the narrative of these early poets. The word tradition is an equivocal word, and begs the whole question ; for while in its obvious and literal meaning it implies only something handed down, whether truth or fiction, — it is tacitly understood to imply a tale descriptive of some real matter of fact, taking its rise at the time when that fact happened, and originally...
Page 597 - On the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion. By the same. 10s. 6d.
Page 48 - The Master of the people, that is, of the burghers, or, as he was otherwise called, the Dictator, was appointed, it is true, for six' months only ; and therefore liable, like the consuls, to be arraigned after the expiration of his office, for any acts of tyranny which he might have committed during its continuance.
Page 596 - HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT. By TC Sandars, late Fellow of Oriel College. OXFORD STUDIES. By the Rev. M. Pattison, Fellow of Lincoln College.

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