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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 326

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same authorityconfers upon him a character for greatness of mind during the whole ofhis life ; but when, having a great mind to kill himself, he prevailedon a slave to put him to death, he evinced—to use a contradictoryexpression—a vast amount of mental littleness. Mithridates, Ponticus Rex, vir… … L1DE1U |\S fcpUhUTA S> Republic without republicans maybe an exceptional state of things;but ancient as well as modern his-tory furnishes proof that the exist-ence of a republic is not incompa-tible with the absence of anythingfor which such a form of govern-ment is usually desired. It isnow an…

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