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… The arguments pro and con are worth a brief discussion. Tacitus describes the spot, with his usual sharp, clear … undoubtedly corresponds with this description, but then Tacitus, always clear and vivid, makes no mention of the …
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… And for your gift of Speech, I call to mind what Cornelius Tacitus faith of Augustus Csar, Augusto profluens & qu … pleased; Profluenti & qu Principem deceret eloquentia (as Tacitus said of Augustus) in a flowing and a Princely kind of …
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… the Right and Liberty of the Subject; That which Tacitus faith of two of the best Emperors, Res dim …
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… the Duke to be of the number of them, touching whom Tacitus observeth, That such as are false in their love, are … to me, or any others his Well-wishers. The Roman Historian Tacitus hath somewhere a Note, That Benefits, while they may …
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… Barons, and Court Leets, and Sheriffs Courts, by which, as Tacitus says of the Germans, their Ancestors, Jura reddebant …
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… of the King. 'All Estates do stand magis fama quam vi, as Tacitus saith of Rome; and Wealth in every Kingdom, is one of …
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… unlike to that we read of him, who in Nero's Time, and Tacitus's History, was accused, because by his Virtue he did …
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… here say; but I hope never with the like Application, what Tacitus said of the Romans, Omnia discordiis Civilibus seffa, …
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… Nobis exitiabile, nec Reipub. profuturum, as he said in Tacitus; commonly taken away as Elias was with a Whirlwind, …
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… Legionary Soldiers that followed Germanicus, recorded by Tacitus, to have said, Fortunam meam potius, quam me …