An Enquiry Into the Morals of the AncientsA. Bettesworth & C. Hitch, 1737 |
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... Valerius Maximus , ( an Author of Repute amongst the Learned , ) is found a remarkable Example of private Justice , of a Man's divefting himself of his Paffion to practise it without any Referve . Cneus Domitius , Tribune of the People ...
... Valerius Maximus , ( an Author of Repute amongst the Learned , ) is found a remarkable Example of private Justice , of a Man's divefting himself of his Paffion to practise it without any Referve . Cneus Domitius , Tribune of the People ...
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... Valerius Maximus makes this Obfervation upon what has been related concerning Craffus and Domitius , which has a great deal of good Sense in it , and which is offered to the Reader's Confide- ration : Quo pacto igitur inter Amicos ...
... Valerius Maximus makes this Obfervation upon what has been related concerning Craffus and Domitius , which has a great deal of good Sense in it , and which is offered to the Reader's Confide- ration : Quo pacto igitur inter Amicos ...
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... Valerius Maximus differs a little from Plu- tarch and Livy in the Story I have related ; for he says , this Treatment of the Schoolmafter was by the Command of the Senate But it is much more reasonable to depend upon the Authority of ...
... Valerius Maximus differs a little from Plu- tarch and Livy in the Story I have related ; for he says , this Treatment of the Schoolmafter was by the Command of the Senate But it is much more reasonable to depend upon the Authority of ...
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... Valerius Maximus ) falutem publicam ftabilierunt , and that we may not think that this Poverty was not of Choice , let us obferve the Conduct of Fabricius under a ftrong Temptation . WHEN Pyrrhus , whom I mentioned in my first Chapter ...
... Valerius Maximus ) falutem publicam ftabilierunt , and that we may not think that this Poverty was not of Choice , let us obferve the Conduct of Fabricius under a ftrong Temptation . WHEN Pyrrhus , whom I mentioned in my first Chapter ...
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... Valerius Maximus a fingular Proof of the Noblenefs of Spirit of the ancient Romans , in the Matter we are now upon . Upon an Embafly from Ptolemy , King of Egypt , the Senate in Return fent him four Ambafladors , who being upon their ...
... Valerius Maximus a fingular Proof of the Noblenefs of Spirit of the ancient Romans , in the Matter we are now upon . Upon an Embafly from Ptolemy , King of Egypt , the Senate in Return fent him four Ambafladors , who being upon their ...
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