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Page 533 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
Page 294 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 563 - ... representation and without end. Therefore they set up no statues in their cities, still less in their temples ; this flattery is not paid their kings, nor this honour given to the Caesars. But since their priests used to chant to the accompaniment of pipes and cymbals and to wear garlands of ivy, and because a golden vine was found in their temple, some have thought that they were devotees coli, domitorem Orientis, quidam arbitrati sunt, nequaquam congruentibus institutis.
Page 312 - Roma tamen debet civilibus armis, quod tibi res acta est. te, cum statione peracta 45 astra petes serus, praelati regia caeli excipiet gaudente polo; seu sceptra tenere, seu te flammigeros Phoebi conscendere currus, telluremque nihil mutato sole timentem igne vago lustrare iuvet, tibi numine ab omni 50 cedetur, iurisque tui natura relinquet, quis deus esse velis, ubi regnum ponere mundi.
Page 302 - ... familiarity, still thunder in my ears with startling intensity.' For the rest I must content myself with referring to the close of the fifty-sixth and the opening of the sixty-fourth chapters of his ' History of the Romans during the Empire.' A few words are necessary with regard to the translation of this great poem which I have been bold enough to offer to the...
Page 289 - ... without, adequate reason, to have borrowed directly from the other. But the philosopher, be it remembered, discoursed to a large. and not inattentive audience; and surely the soil was .not all unfruitful on which his seed was scattered, when he proclaimed that God dwells not in temples of wood or stone, nor wants the ministrations of human hands; that he has no delight in the blood of victims; that he is near to all his creatures...
Page 85 - And, in point of fact, the inconsistency of Seneca's life was a conscious inconsistency. " To the student," he says, "who professes his wish to rise to a loftier grade of virtue, I would answer that this is my wish also, but I dare not hope it. I am preoccupied with vices. All I require of myself is, not to be equal to the best, but only to be better than the bad...
Page 424 - For he who hath in turn run through All that was beautiful and new, Hath nought to hope, and nought to leave ; And, save the future (which is viewed Not quite as men are base or good, But as their nerves may be endued), With nought perhaps to grieve...
Page 114 - The laws were legally enforced. The finances were intelligently managed. " Great honour is undoubtedly due to the men who actually governed for Nero, that they did so little to abuse their temporary ascendancy.
Page 286 - Even at Rome, in the worst of times, all the relations of life were adorned in turn with bright instances of devotion, and mankind transacted their business with an ordinary confidence in the force of conscience and right reason.