The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero: In Three Volumes, Band 2W. Strahan, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, R. Horsfield, W. Johnston, C. Rivington, T. Davies and J. Knox., 1767 |
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Seite 411 - and had frequently in his mouth a verfe of Euripides, which exprefled the image of his foul, that if right and juftice were ever to be violated, they were to be violated for the fake of reigning. This was the chief end and purpofe of his life; the fcheme that he had formed from his early youth-, fo that, as Cato
Seite 289 - his life and honor, and the Republic its liberty. But he was urged to his fate by a natural fuperftition, and attention to thofe vain auguries, with which he was flattered by all the Harufpices: he had feen the fame temper in Marius and Sylla, and obferved the happy effects of it: but they aflumed it
Seite 287 - had not reftrained him: but he lived in a perpetual expectation of receiving from the gift of the people, what he did not care to feize by force; and by fomenting the diforders of the City, hoped to drive them to the neceffity of creating him Dictator. It is an obfervation of all the hiftorians, that while
Seite 289 - out of policy, he out of principle. They ufed it to animate their foldiers, when they had found a probable opportunity of fighting; but he, againft all prudence and probability, was encouraged by it to fight to his own ruin. He faw
Seite 290 - all Italy was putting up vows and prayers for his fafety? or if he had fallen by the chance of war on the plains of Pharfalia, in the defence of his Country's liberty, he had died ftill glorious, though unfortunate: but, as if he had been
Seite 287 - in the height of power and glory, and by the confent of all parties placed at the head of the Republic. This: was the poft that his ambition feemed to aim at, to be the firft man in Rome-, the Leader, not the Tyrant of his Country: for he more than once had it in his power to have made himfelf the
Seite 351 - the right; Corinth on the left: all which *' towns, once famous and florifhing, now lie " overturned, and buried in their ruins : upon
Seite 287 - that his ambition feemed to aim at, to be the firft man in Rome-, the Leader, not the Tyrant of his Country: for he more than once had it in his power to have made himfelf the
Seite 290 - his wife Cornelia in a Vault of his Alban Villa, The Egyptians however raifed a monument to him on the place, and adorned it with figures of brafs, which being defaced afterwards by time, and buried
Seite 288 - his action noble, and full of dignity. But his talents were better formed for arms, than the gown: for though in both he obferved the fame difcipline, a perpetual modefty, temperance, and gravity of outward behaviour •, yet in the licence of camps, the example was more rare and ftriking. His perfon was extremely graceful!, and imprinting refpecT:; yet with an air of