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Pàgina 24
... land ; but his lieutenant engaging against his pofitive orders , and being beaten by Lyfänder , Alcibiades was again difgraced , and banished . However , the Athe- nians having loft all strength and heart fince their mif- fortune at ...
... land ; but his lieutenant engaging against his pofitive orders , and being beaten by Lyfänder , Alcibiades was again difgraced , and banished . However , the Athe- nians having loft all strength and heart fince their mif- fortune at ...
Pàgina 28
... land for fome centuries after the conquest . After a year's inter - regnum from the death of Romu- lus , the fenate , of their own authority , chofe a fucceffor , and a stranger , merely upon the fame of his virtue , with- out out ...
... land for fome centuries after the conquest . After a year's inter - regnum from the death of Romu- lus , the fenate , of their own authority , chofe a fucceffor , and a stranger , merely upon the fame of his virtue , with- out out ...
Pàgina 30
... lands , which the commons would fain have divided among the public ; but the fenate could not be brought to give their confent . For feveral of the wifest among the nobles be- gan to apprehend the growing power of the people ; and * Ab ...
... lands , which the commons would fain have divided among the public ; but the fenate could not be brought to give their confent . For feveral of the wifest among the nobles be- gan to apprehend the growing power of the people ; and * Ab ...
Pàgina 31
... lands , was impeached by the people of high treafon , and a day appointed for his trial ; but difdaining to make his defence , he chofe rather the ufual Roman remedy of kit- ling himself : after whofe death the commons prevailed , and ...
... lands , was impeached by the people of high treafon , and a day appointed for his trial ; but difdaining to make his defence , he chofe rather the ufual Roman remedy of kit- ling himself : after whofe death the commons prevailed , and ...
Pàgina 34
... lands to be divided , befide a great private efiate left by a king these the tribunes , by procurement of the elder Gracchus , decla- red by their legislative authority , were not to be difpofed of by the nobles , but by the commons ...
... lands to be divided , befide a great private efiate left by a king these the tribunes , by procurement of the elder Gracchus , decla- red by their legislative authority , were not to be difpofed of by the nobles , but by the commons ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 403 - We are plagued here with an October Club ; that is, a set of above a hundred Parliamentmen of the country, who drink October beer at home, and meet every evening at a tavern near the Parliament, to consult affairs, and drive things on to extremes against the Whigs, to call the old ministry to account, and get off five or six heads.
Pàgina 42 - For, although in their corrupt notions of divine worship, they are apt to multiply their gods; yet their earthly devotion is seldom paid to above one idol at a time of their own creation, whose oar they pull with less murmuring and much more skill, than when they share the lading, or even hold the helm.
Pàgina 399 - ADVICE HUMBLY OFFERED TO -THE MEMBERS OF THE OCTOBER CLUB. In a Letter from a Person of Honour*.