Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic: The Gracchi. Sulla. Crassus. Cato. Pompey. CæsarLongmans, Green, 1902 - 348 pages |
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... constitutional aspects . This little book is not a history , but a series of studies of the leading men of the century , intended to show the importance of the personal element in those miserable days of storm and stress . It is thus ...
... constitutional aspects . This little book is not a history , but a series of studies of the leading men of the century , intended to show the importance of the personal element in those miserable days of storm and stress . It is thus ...
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... constitutional growth and degeneration , or as a bundle of interesting administrative and legal details , that it seems not out of place to recall that other aspect of it which was more familiar to elder generations , and to look at it ...
... constitutional growth and degeneration , or as a bundle of interesting administrative and legal details , that it seems not out of place to recall that other aspect of it which was more familiar to elder generations , and to look at it ...
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... constitutional struggle which pierced to the very roots of her being . This was the problem of determining with whom should reside for the future sovereignty , in the technical sense of the word , i.e. the actual supreme voice in the ...
... constitutional struggle which pierced to the very roots of her being . This was the problem of determining with whom should reside for the future sovereignty , in the technical sense of the word , i.e. the actual supreme voice in the ...
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... constitutional question , as to where sovereignty should reside at Rome , were a number of social and economic questions , arising from the fact that the new commercial conditions of the Mediterranean world , which followed from the ...
... constitutional question , as to where sovereignty should reside at Rome , were a number of social and economic questions , arising from the fact that the new commercial conditions of the Mediterranean world , which followed from the ...
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... constitution remained perfectly unchanged , and the rude administra- tive machinery which had sufficed to manage a small com- munity of farmers living close around the walls of the city , was being applied with a rigid and stupid ...
... constitution remained perfectly unchanged , and the rude administra- tive machinery which had sufficed to manage a small com- munity of farmers living close around the walls of the city , was being applied with a rigid and stupid ...
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