Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Svazek 5,Díl 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... Roman people . " Cicero had no fooner entered upon his office than he had occafion to exert himself againft P. Servilius Rullus , one of the new tribunes , who had been alarm- ing the fenate with the promulgation of an Agrarian law ...
... Roman people . " Cicero had no fooner entered upon his office than he had occafion to exert himself againft P. Servilius Rullus , one of the new tribunes , who had been alarm- ing the fenate with the promulgation of an Agrarian law ...
Strana 3
... Roman citizen unheard fhould himself be banished , he foon after impeached Cicero upon it . It was in vain that this great man went up and down the city foliciting his caufe in the habit of a fuppliant , and attended by many of the ...
... Roman citizen unheard fhould himself be banished , he foon after impeached Cicero upon it . It was in vain that this great man went up and down the city foliciting his caufe in the habit of a fuppliant , and attended by many of the ...
Strana 4
... Roman ladies . His affliction for the death of this daughter was so great , that , to fhun all company as much as he could , he removed to Atticus's houfe , where he lived chiefly . in his library , turning over every book he could meet ...
... Roman ladies . His affliction for the death of this daughter was so great , that , to fhun all company as much as he could , he removed to Atticus's houfe , where he lived chiefly . in his library , turning over every book he could meet ...
Strana 5
... Roman people , fo lamentably expofed to the fcorn of fycophants and traitors . The deaths of the reft , fays an hilorian of that age , caufed only a private and particular for- row ; but Cicero's an univerfal one . It was a triumph over ...
... Roman people , fo lamentably expofed to the fcorn of fycophants and traitors . The deaths of the reft , fays an hilorian of that age , caufed only a private and particular for- row ; but Cicero's an univerfal one . It was a triumph over ...
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... Roman who oppofed him Cichori from political motives , and one whofe enmity arofe from private pique . " um . Cicero's death happened on the 7th of December , in the 64th year of his age , about ten days from the fettle- ment of the ...
... Roman who oppofed him Cichori from political motives , and one whofe enmity arofe from private pique . " um . Cicero's death happened on the 7th of December , in the 64th year of his age , about ten days from the fettle- ment of the ...
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Strana 51 - A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again, translated from a manuscript written by the Prefetto of Egypt, in company with some missionaries de propaganda fide, at Grand Cairo: To which are added, Remarks on the Origin of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of the ancient Heathens.
Strana 344 - The method of computing these degrees in the canon law which our law has adopted, is as follows : we begin at the common ancestor, and reckon downwards : and in whatsoever degree the two persons, or the most remote of them, is distant from the common ancestor, that is the degree in which they are related to each other.
Strana 127 - Instead, therefore, of placing the world upon the giant, the giant upon the tortoise, and the tortoise upon he could not tell what, he placed the world at once upon itself...
Strana 277 - On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses -drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light.: So, on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walk'd up and down alone, bent on his prey...
Strana 149 - And therefore the common law of England, as such, has no allowance or authority there; they being no part of the mother country, but distinct, though dependent dominions. They are subject, however, to the control of the parliament, though (like Ireland, Man, and the rest) not bound by any acts of parliament, unless particularly named.
Strana 38 - Some Reflections on that part of a Book called Amyntor, or a Defence of Milton's Life, written by Toland, which relates to the Writings of the Primitive Fathers and the Canon of the New Testament, in a Letter to a Friend.
Strana 126 - ... at different distances, that is, surrounded with various spheres of attraction and repulsion ; in the same manner as solid matter is generally supposed to be. Provided, therefore, that any body move with a sufficient degree of velocity, or have...
Strana 2 - Cicero's interest appeared to be superior to that of all the candidates: for the nobles themselves, though always envious, and desirous to depress him, yet, out of regard to the dangers which threatened the city from many quarters, and seemed ready to...
Strana 236 - because they had acted in a manner repugnant to the honour and policy of this nation, and thereby brought great calamities on India, and enormous expenses on the East India company*" Here was no attempt on the charter.
Strana 345 - ... rose from one post to another, till at length he was chosen chief magistrate. In this office he maintained a fair character, and continued to fill...