Caesar: A SketchLongmans, Green, and Company, 1886 - 568 páginas |
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Página 160 - Poenis, omnia cum belli trepido concussa tumultu horrida contremuere sub altis aetheris oris in dubioque fuere utrorum ad regna cadendum omnibus humanis esset terraque marique, sic, ubi non erimus, cum corporis atque animai discidium fuerit quibus e sumus uniter apti. scilicet...
Página 551 - No obstacle stopped him when he had a definite end in view. In battle he sometimes rode ; but he was more often on foot, bareheaded, and in a conspicuous dress, that he might be seen and recognized. Again and again by his own efforts he recovered a day that was half lost. He once seized a panic-stricken standard-bearer, turned him round, and told him that he had mistaken the direction of the enemy. He never misled his army as to an enemy's strength ; or, if he misstated their numbers, it was only...
Página 552 - Yet he was singularly careful of his soldiers. He allowed his legions rest, though he allowed, none to himself. He rarely fought a battle at a disadvantage. He never exposed his men to unnecessary danger, and the loss by wear and tear in the campaigns in Gaul was exceptionally and even astonishingly slight. When a gallant action was performed, he knew by whom it had been done, and every soldier, however humble, might feel assured that if he deserved praise he would have it. The army was Caesar's...
Página 558 - Of Caesar too it may be said that he came into the world at a special time and for a special object. The old religions were dead, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Euphrates and the Nile, and the principles on which human society had been constructed were dead also. There remained of spiritual conviction only the common and human sense of justice and morality; and out of this sense some ordered system of government had to be constructed, under which quiet men could live and labor and eat the fruit...
Página 560 - ... eagles. But his own writings contain nothing to indicate that he himself had any religious belief at all. He saw no evidence that the gods practically interfered in human affairs. He never pretended that Jupiter was on his side. He thanked his soldiers after a victory, but he did not order Te Deums to be sung for it; and in the absence of these conventionalisms he perhaps showed more real reverence than he could have displayed by the freest use of the formulas of pietism. He fought his battles...
Página 535 - We have killed the king," exclaimed Cicero in the bitterness of his disenchantment, " but the kingdom is with us still " : " we have taken away the tyrant ; the tyranny survives." Caesar had not overthrown the oligarchy : their own incapacity, their own selfishness, their own baseness, had overthrown them. Caesar had been but the reluctant instrument of the Power which metes out to men the inevitable penalties of their own misdeeds. They had dreamt that the Constitution was a living force which would...
Página 540 - In Cicero Nature half made a great man and left him uncompleted. Our characters are written in our forms, and the bust of Cicero is the key to his history. The brow is broad and strong, the nose large, the lips tightly compressed, the features lean and keen from restless intellectual energy.