The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic, Volume 4Bell & Bradfute, 1825 |
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Page 125 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Page 133 - ... that you're no composer, nor know no more of music than you do of algebra. — Arbuthnot's Harmony in an Uproar. Nor. is danger ever apprehended in such a government from the violence of the sovereign, no more than we commonly apprehend danger from thunder or earthquakes. — -Hume's Essays. Among them the people were obliged to consider, not what was safe, but what was necessary ; and could not always defend themselves against usurpations, neither by legal forms, nor by open war, — Ferguson's...
Page 150 - This left the conspirators no longer in doubt that they were discovered ; and they made signs to each other, that it would be better to die by their own hands than to fall into the power of their enemy. But they...
Page 84 - ... entire thought or mental proposition ; and different thoughts ought to be separated in the expression, by being placed in different periods. It is improper to connect in language things which are separated in reality. Of errors against this rule I shall produce a few examples. Cato died in the full vigour of life, under fifty ; he was naturally warm and affectionate in his temper ; comprehensive, impartial, and strongly possessed with the love of mankind.
Page 325 - Cesar led the armies ot" the republic against the enemies of Rome, we took part in the same service with him; we obeyed him; we we're happy to serve under his command. But when he declared war against the commonwealth, we became his enemies; and when he became an usurper and a tyrant, we resented, as an injury, even the favours which he presumed to bestow upon ourselves. Had he been to fall a sacrifice to private resentment, we should not have been the proper actors in the execution of the sentence...
Page 150 - Her spiri^ at last sunk under the effect of such violent emotions ; she fainted away, and was carried for dead into her apartment. A message came to Brutus in the Senate with this account. He was much affected, but kept his place. Popilius Laenas, who a little before seemed, from the expression he had dropped, to have got notice of their design, appeared to be in earnest conversation with Caesar, as he lighted from his carriage. This left the...
Page 151 - ... a facrifice to their juft indignation ; a ftriking example of what the arrogant have to fear in trifling with the feelings of...
Page 136 - Many of them affected servility, in conferring the extravagant honours which had been decreed to Caesar, as the mark of a sullen displeasure, which, conscious of a tendency to betray itself, took the disguise of the opposite extreme. " The question respecting the expedience of a monarchical government, did not enter into the deliberations of any one. If it had been urged that a King was necessary ; it would have been asked, who gave the right to...
Page 325 - ... honours ; but, we were not willing to accept, as the gift of a master, what we were entitled to claim as free citizens. We conceived, that, in presuming to confer the honors of the Roman Republic, he encroached on the prerogatives of the Roman people, and insulted the authority of the Roman senate. Cesar cancelled the laws, and overturned the constitution of his country ; he usurped all the powers of the commonwealth, set up a monarchy, and himself affected to be a king. This our ancestors, at...
Page 151 - And thus having employed the greatest abilities to subdue his fellow citizens, with whom it would have been a much greater honour to have been able to live on terms of equality, he fell, in the height of his...