Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... never written , owing partly to the fact that the period was already treated in easily accessible works and partly to his distaste for the intrigues and bloodshed of the early empire . In 1885 , however , appeared the fifth volume on a ...
... never written , owing partly to the fact that the period was already treated in easily accessible works and partly to his distaste for the intrigues and bloodshed of the early empire . In 1885 , however , appeared the fifth volume on a ...
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... never written , owing partly to the fact that the period was already treated in easily accessible works and partly to his distaste for the intrigues and bloodshed of the early empire . In 1885 , however , appeared the fifth volume on a ...
... never written , owing partly to the fact that the period was already treated in easily accessible works and partly to his distaste for the intrigues and bloodshed of the early empire . In 1885 , however , appeared the fifth volume on a ...
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... never knew , and , alone among all civilized nations of antiquity , succeeded in working out national unity in connection with a constitution based on self - government— a national unity which at last placed in his hands the mastery ...
... never knew , and , alone among all civilized nations of antiquity , succeeded in working out national unity in connection with a constitution based on self - government— a national unity which at last placed in his hands the mastery ...
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... never came to be regarded by the Romans as other than mortal , nor , as by divine right , higher and better than his fellow - citizens . This view of the kingship was at once the moral and practical limitation of its power . The king ...
... never came to be regarded by the Romans as other than mortal , nor , as by divine right , higher and better than his fellow - citizens . This view of the kingship was at once the moral and practical limitation of its power . The king ...
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... never the one first chosen , nominated the king , and his choice was ratified by the whole assembly of the citizens . Thus the senate was the ultimate holder of the ruling power , and was a guarantee of the permanence of the monarchy ...
... never the one first chosen , nominated the king , and his choice was ratified by the whole assembly of the citizens . Thus the senate was the ultimate holder of the ruling power , and was a guarantee of the permanence of the monarchy ...
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