The Life of M. Tullius CiceroLongman, Orme, & Company, 1837 - 739 Seiten |
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Seite 515 - Rome ; but disdaining the condition of a subject, he could never rest till he made himself a monarch. In acting this last part, his usual prudence seemed to fail him, as if the height to which he was mounted had turned his head and made him giddy ; for, by a vain ostentation of his power, he destroyed the...
Seite 179 - ... the people. But as all Patricians were incapable of the Tribunate, by its original institution, so his first step was to make himself a Plebeian by the pretence of an adoption into a Plebeian house, which could not yet be done without the suffrage of the people. This case was wholly new, and contrary to all the forms — wanting every condition, and serving none of the ends which were required in regular adoptions — so that, on the first proposal, it seemed too extravagant to be treated seriously,...
Seite 27 - ... of the lungs ; and it gave the greater alarm to those who had a regard for me, that I used to speak without any remission or variation, with the utmost stretch of my voice, and great agitation of my body ; when my friends, therefore, and physicians, advised me to meddle no more with causes, I resolved to run any hazard, rather than...
Seite 23 - Thus adorned and accomplished, he offered himself to the bar about the age of twenty-six ; not as others generally did, raw and ignorant of their business, and wanting to be formed to it by use and experience, but finished and qualified at once to sustain any cause which should be committed to him.
Seite 474 - In this uneasy state, both of his publick and private life, Cicero was oppressed by a new and deep affliction, the death of his beloved daughter Tullia; which happened soon after her divorce 'from Dolabella ; whose manners and humours were entirely disagreeable to her.
Seite 514 - ... each other. With money, therefore, he provided soldiers, and with soldiers extorted money ; and was of all men the most rapacious in plundering both friends and foes, — sparing neither prince, nor state, nor temple, nor even private persons who were known to possess any share of treasure. His great abilities would necessarily have made him one of the first citizens of Rome ; but disdaining the condition of a subject, he could never rest till he had made himself a monarch.
Seite 507 - But philosophy was his favorite study; in which, though he professed himself of the more moderate sect of the old academy, yet, from a certain pride and gravity of temper, he affected the severity of the stoic, and to imitate his uncle Cato, to which he was wholly unequal : for he was of a mild, merciful, and compassionate disposition ; averse to...
Seite 119 - who blame me for what I am boasting of, as you all indeed justly may, that I did not rather seize than send away so capital an enemy ; that is not my fault, citizens, but the fault of the times. Catiline ought long ago to have suffered the last punishment ; the custom of our ancestors, the discipline of the empire, and the republic itself, required it. But how many would there have been who would not have believed what I charged him with ? How many, who, through weakness, would never have imagined...
Seite 105 - This practice, though in use from the earliest times, had always been complained of by the tribunes, as an infringement of the constitution, by giving to the senate an arbitrary power over the lives of citizens, which could not legally be taken away without a hearing and judgment of the whole people. But the chief grudge to it was, from its being a perpetual check to the designs of the ambitious and popular, who aspired to any power not allowed by the laws : it was not difficult for them to delude...