The History of the Life of M. Tullius Cicero, Band 3J. J. Tourneisen; and J. L. Legrand, 1790 - 373 Seiten |
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Seite 357 - Antony, that he might secure against all events the grand point which he had in view, the peace and tranquillity of his life. Thus two excellent men, by their...
Seite 292 - ... especially while Antony lived; among the sycophants of whose court, it was fashionable to insult his memory by all the methods of calumny that wit and malice could invent : nay Virgil, on an occasion that could hardly fail of bringing him to his mind, instead of doing justice to his merit, chose to do an injustice rather to Rome itself, by yielding the superiority of eloquence to the Greeks, which they themselves had been forced to yield to Cicero s.
Seite 315 - ... arts ; in oratory, poetry, philosophy, law, history, criticism, politics, ethics : in each of which he equalled the greatest masters of his time ; in some of them excelled all men of all times.
Seite 294 - ... learning beyond those of their empire*. So that their very emperors, near three centuries after his death, began to reverence him in the class of their inferior deities'* : a rank which he would have preserved to this day, if he had happened to live in papal Rome, where he could not have failed, as Erasmus says, from " the innocence of his life, of obtaining the honour and title of a saint1.
Seite 289 - ... and carried him away towards the (hip, through the private ways and walks of his woods ; having juft heard, that foldiers were already come into the country in queft of him, and not far from the villa. As foon as they were gone, the foldiers arrived at the houfe ; and perceiving him to be fled, purfued immediately towards the fea...
Seite 312 - ... when dead, by leaving the example of their virtues to the imitation of mankind. Thus Cicero, as he often declares, never looked upon that to be his life, which was confined to this narrow circle on earth, but considered his acts as...
Seite 348 - K any other comment or interpreter of it, but " itfelf : nor can there be one law at Rome , " another at Athens ; one now , another hereafter ; " but the fame eternal immutable law , comprehends " all nations , at all times under one common " Mafter and Governor of all , God.
Seite 236 - ... being taken, till having dismissed all his attendants, and wandered for some time alone in disguise and distress, he committed himself to the protection of an old acquaintance and host whom he had formerly obliged ; where, either through treachery or accident, he was surprised by Antony's soldiers, who immediately killed him, and returned with his head to their general ". Several of the old writers have reproached his memory with a...
Seite 280 - Octavius had no sooner settled the affairs of the city, and subdued the senate to his mind, than he marched back towards Gaul, to meet Antony and Lepidus, who had already passed the Alps, and brought their armies into Italy, in order to have a personal interview with him, which had been privately concerted, for settling the terms of a triple league, and dividing the power and provinces of the empire among themselves.
Seite 283 - The laft thing that they adjufted, was the lift of a profcription , which they were determined to make ,of their enemies. This, as the writers tell us , occafioned much difficulty and •warm contefts among them; till each of them, in his turn, confented to facrifice fome of his beft friends to the revenge and refentment of his Colleagues. The, whole lift is faid to have confifted of...