Lives of Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, and Titus Pomponius Atticus: The Latter from the Latin of Cornelius NeposJ. Ballantyne & Company, 1813 - 178 |
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... manner , the leading features of it . However , independent of Gibbon's au- thority as an historian , the light in which Messala appears , when first introduced by Cicero to the notice of Brutus , is in itself sufficient to awaken ...
... manner , the leading features of it . However , independent of Gibbon's au- thority as an historian , the light in which Messala appears , when first introduced by Cicero to the notice of Brutus , is in itself sufficient to awaken ...
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... manner of that of Messala Corvinus , on the success of which with the Public will in a great measure depend their publication . MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF MARCUS VALERIUS MESSALA CORVINUS . -Memoir of the Life of Marcus Valerius Messala ...
... manner of that of Messala Corvinus , on the success of which with the Public will in a great measure depend their publication . MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF MARCUS VALERIUS MESSALA CORVINUS . -Memoir of the Life of Marcus Valerius Messala ...
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... , which he is compiling after the manner of that of Messala Corvinus , on the success of which with the Public will in a great measure depend their publication . MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF MARCUS VALERIUS MESSALA CORVINUS .
... , which he is compiling after the manner of that of Messala Corvinus , on the success of which with the Public will in a great measure depend their publication . MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF MARCUS VALERIUS MESSALA CORVINUS .
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... ter introducing Messala to his notice in the most flattering manner , he lays open the whole political state of the Republic , from the death of Cæsar , in the year of Rome 709 , to the year 710 ; but , as general history is not to 4.
... ter introducing Messala to his notice in the most flattering manner , he lays open the whole political state of the Republic , from the death of Cæsar , in the year of Rome 709 , to the year 710 ; but , as general history is not to 4.
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... manner of speaking . Yet his industry all the while is so remarkable , and he spends so much time in study , that he seems to owe but little to his parts , which are still the greatest . But I am carried too far by my love for him : for ...
... manner of speaking . Yet his industry all the while is so remarkable , and he spends so much time in study , that he seems to owe but little to his parts , which are still the greatest . But I am carried too far by my love for him : for ...
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