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... Tyrant - Grim Hu- mour - Establishes the Prætorian Camp -His further Encroachments on Liberty -His charming Retreat - Strange No- tion of Starvation - Herod Agrippa- Amusements of Tiberius - The Emperor Caius - Oriental Grandeur - The ...
... Tyrant - Grim Hu- mour - Establishes the Prætorian Camp -His further Encroachments on Liberty -His charming Retreat - Strange No- tion of Starvation - Herod Agrippa- Amusements of Tiberius - The Emperor Caius - Oriental Grandeur - The ...
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... tyrant observed the enthusiastic reception given to the conqueror , he trembled for his throne , and dispatched him on a forlorn hope to the far East , at the same time send- ing out Piso , his personal enemy , as governor of Syria ...
... tyrant observed the enthusiastic reception given to the conqueror , he trembled for his throne , and dispatched him on a forlorn hope to the far East , at the same time send- ing out Piso , his personal enemy , as governor of Syria ...
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... tyrant , whom nothing could escape , muttered one day You leave the setting , to worship the rising sun . ' Young prince Caius was very popular , especially amongst the soldiers , as the son of Germanicus . In infancy he had been bred ...
... tyrant , whom nothing could escape , muttered one day You leave the setting , to worship the rising sun . ' Young prince Caius was very popular , especially amongst the soldiers , as the son of Germanicus . In infancy he had been bred ...
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... tyrants that ever lived . It was in his reign that the SAVIOUR was born ; and it was from his murderous grasp that Joseph and Mary carried Him down into Egypt . He had married Mariamne , the fairest princess of her times , who , as a ...
... tyrants that ever lived . It was in his reign that the SAVIOUR was born ; and it was from his murderous grasp that Joseph and Mary carried Him down into Egypt . He had married Mariamne , the fairest princess of her times , who , as a ...
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... tyrant's unavailing remorse , his fruitless yearnings for the victim he had sacrificed to his jealous rage , the plaintive exclamations he made to echo through his halls , and the passionate up- braidings with which he assailed her ...
... tyrant's unavailing remorse , his fruitless yearnings for the victim he had sacrificed to his jealous rage , the plaintive exclamations he made to echo through his halls , and the passionate up- braidings with which he assailed her ...
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