A New Universal Biography, Containing Interesting Accounts, Tom 2Sherwood, Jones, and Company, 1825 |
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... natural parts ; and applied with some assiduity to the study of eloquence , but his chief attention was directed to the arts ... nature for the express purpose of showing how much mischief could be effected by the great- est depravity ...
... natural parts ; and applied with some assiduity to the study of eloquence , but his chief attention was directed to the arts ... nature for the express purpose of showing how much mischief could be effected by the great- est depravity ...
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... nature of the soul and its separation from the body . Having received the decree of the senate , he retired into his bed - chamber , and laid bare the veins of both arms , and then bled to death . ARRIA , wife of Cœcinna Pætus , a ...
... nature of the soul and its separation from the body . Having received the decree of the senate , he retired into his bed - chamber , and laid bare the veins of both arms , and then bled to death . ARRIA , wife of Cœcinna Pætus , a ...
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... natural wickedness prevailed , and made all their care useless . Nero , being re- solved to get rid of his mother , was about to take from Burrus his employ of colonel of the guards , remembering that he got it by Agrippina's favour ...
... natural wickedness prevailed , and made all their care useless . Nero , being re- solved to get rid of his mother , was about to take from Burrus his employ of colonel of the guards , remembering that he got it by Agrippina's favour ...
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... nature and decency was soon exchanged for ano- ther ; Nero resumed his sex , and celebrated his nuptials with one of his meanest catamites ; and on this occasion a Roman wit observed , that the world would have been happy if Nero's ...
... nature and decency was soon exchanged for ano- ther ; Nero resumed his sex , and celebrated his nuptials with one of his meanest catamites ; and on this occasion a Roman wit observed , that the world would have been happy if Nero's ...
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... natural in his tastes , and guided by moderation in his sentiments and actions . In the course of public honours to which his birth and con- nections entitled him , he rose to the consulate , A. D. 120 , and was afterwards chosen by ...
... natural in his tastes , and guided by moderation in his sentiments and actions . In the course of public honours to which his birth and con- nections entitled him , he rose to the consulate , A. D. 120 , and was afterwards chosen by ...
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