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Page 148 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Page 136 - Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved in the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognized by all : — For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it ; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it.
Page 180 - ... misfortunes ? Did ever man fall from so elevated a station, in so good a cause, with such advantages of genius, experience, and popularity, or so guarded by the interest of every worthy patriot ? Is it possible I should forget who I have been ; that I should not feel who I am ; what glory, what honor, what children, what fortunes, and what a brother I have lost? A brother, that you may know my calamities to be unexampled, whom I loved, whom I have ever loved more than myself; yet have I been...
Page 4 - But there cannot be a better proof of the delightfulness of the place, than that it is now possessed by a convent of Monks, and called the Villa of St. Dominick.* Strange revolution ! to see Cicero's porticos converted to Monkish cloisters ! the seat of the most refined reason, wit, and learning, to a nursery of superstition, bigotry and enthusiasm...
Page 4 - But there cannot be a better proof,' adds he, ' of the delightfulness of the place, than that it ' is now possessed by a convent of Monks, and called The Villa. ' of St. Dominic. Strange revolution, to see Cicero's porticos ' converted to Monkish cloisters ! the seat of the most refined " Mr. Jebb wrote a particular friend, in reference to the above friend, on the 23d of that month, (April,) as follows: — ' The struggle was vehement, but it was resolved, it seems, that I was to have no share in...
Page 155 - All these considerations warn us — the grave-stones of almost every former republic warn us — that a high standard of moral rectitude, as well as of intelligence, is quite as indispensable to communities in their public doings as to individuals, if they would escape from either degeneracy or disgrace.
Page 70 - ... plagued the poor farmers of the revenue, though they have been his very good friends ; nor will he suffer the Senate to return any answer to their petition. Thus, we are forced to do no kind of business, before that of the revenue is dispatched, and I believe even the deputations will be set aside. You see what storms we encounter, and from what I have written, you may form a clear judgment Of what I have omitted. Pray think upon returning hither ; and though it is, indeed, a disagreeable place,...
Page 68 - ... know nothing of, is a tribune of the people ; but you may know him, for he is of your tribe, and his father Sextus used to be the paymaster of your election money. This man has transferred Clodius to the commons ; and prevailed with all the tribes of the people to pass a vote in the Campus Martius concerning his adopted son. I gave him a proper reception, as usual, but the fellow is incorrigibly stupid. Metellus proves an excellent consul, and my very good friend ; but he hurts his authority,...
Page 67 - ... prostituted judgment. Now you shall hear what followed upon this. We had a consul forced upon us, and such a consul as none but philosophers like us can behold without a sigh. What a calamity was this ? The Senate had passed a decree concerning corruption in elections and trials. This decree never passed into a law ; the Senate was confounded, the Roman Knights were disobliged. Thus did one year overthrow the two barriers of the government which I had erected, by taking authority from the Senate,...
Page 67 - ... corruption in elections and trials. This decree never passed into a law ; the Senate was confounded, the Roman Knights were disobliged. Thus did one year overthrow the two barriers of the government which I had erected, by taking authority from the Senate, and breaking the union of our orders. . . . One Herennius, whom you, perhaps, know nothing of, is a tribune of the people ; but you may know him, for he is of your tribe, and his father Sextus used to be the paymaster of your election money....
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| Title | Cicero's epistles to Atticus, with notes, tr by W. Guthrie, Volume 1 Cicero's epistles to Atticus, with notes, tr by W. Guthrie, Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Translated by | William Guthrie |
| Published | 1806 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 Jun 2007 |
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