| Pierre-Daniel Huet - 1810 - 506 pages
...transcribe. " In former times, as there was a greater propensity, and freer scope, for the performance of actions worthy of remembrance, so every person...arrogance, to become their own biographers. Of this, Rutihus and Scaurus were instances, who yet neither underwent reproach, nor suspicion of want of fidelity,... | |
| Cornelius Tacitus - 1815 - 244 pages
...infested. In former times, however, as there was a greater propensity, and freer scope, for the performance of actions worthy of remembrance ; so every person of distinguished abilities was induced through conscious satisfaction in the task a This work was composed in the year of Rome 850, and in... | |
| Cornelius Tacitus - 1823 - 240 pages
...Jin former times, however, as. there was a greater propensity, and freer scope, for the performance of actions worthy of remembrance ; so every person of distinguished abilities was induced through conscientious. 1 This work was composed in the year of Rome 850, and in that from the birth... | |
| Cornelius Tacitus - 1854 - 524 pages
...infested. In former times, however, as there was a greater propensity and freer scope for the performance of actions worthy of remembrance, so every person of distinguished abilities was induced through conscious satisfaction in the task alone, without regard to private favour or interest, to... | |
| Cornelius Tacitus - 1874 - 544 pages
...infested. In former times, however, as ihoro was a greater propensity and freer scope for tho performance of actions worthy of remembrance, so every person of distinguished abilities was induced through conscious satisfaction in the task alone, without regard to private favor or interest, to record... | |
| Anna Robeson Brown Burr - 1909 - 518 pages
...toward them: "In former times, as there was a greater propensity and freer scope for the performance of actions worthy of remembrance, so every person...consciousness of doing right alone, without regard to favor or interest, to record examples of worth. And many considered it rather as a proof of the confidence... | |
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