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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 56

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constructions of his reign would induce posterity to place the bestconstruction on his character. He coolly assumed the whole administration of the law, and addedthe office of executioner to that of judge, while he combined with boththe character of a criminal, by seizing the property of all those… … ,V^=Z 34 COMIC HISTORY OF BOWS. ru\P. IV. submit to the Assembly a single question, he treated the unhappymembers as if they had mucli to answer for. Finding the continued ill-treatment of his own people getting rathermonotonous, he sought the pleasures of variety by harassing theVolscians, whom he…

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