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CHAPTER SEVEN · FROM EMPIRE TO EMPERORS Cicero versus Verres
Mary Beard • SPQR
Lucia Ahearne
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The riddle of Augustus
Mary Beard • SPQR
William Ullbors
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Laura Meilinger
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Flint’s Pond! Such is the poverty of our nomenclature. What right had the unclean and stupid farmer, whose farm abutted on this sky water, whose shores he has ruthlessly laid bare, to give his name to it? Some skin-flint, who loved better the reflecting surface of a dollar, or a bright cent, in which he could see his own brazen face; who regarded
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His conceptions were ardent but ludicrous, and his memory, aided, as he honestly acknowledged, by his invention, was an inexhaustible fund of entertainment.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
WHEN RICHARD RUSSELL congratulated him on his victory over Leland Olds, Johnson replied: “I’m young and impressionable, so I just tried to do what the Old Master, the junior senator from Georgia, taught me to do.” And his note to the master included the most potent of code words: “Cloture is where you find it, sir, and this man Olds was an advocate
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