 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...tender respect of Augustus for a free conof Augus- stitution which he had destroyed, can only be cu*' explained by an attentive consideration of the character...cowardly disposition, prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside. With the same hand,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...respect of Augustus for a free constitu of Augus? tion which he had destroyed, can only be explained tus. by an attentive consideration of the character of...cowardly disposition, prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside. With the same hand,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...only be explained by an ™ Aogusattentive consideration of the character of that subtle tnstyrant. A cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition, prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterward laid aside. With the same hand,... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 676 pages
...understood the spirit and design of Tacitus better than any modern writer, thus characterises ¿he same " subtle tyrant : " — " A cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition, prompted him, al the age of nineteen, to assume the ma«k of hypocrisy, which lie never afterwards laid aside. With... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...livres). Gibbon has given the following sketch of the character and history of Augustus : — ' The tender respect of Augustus for a free constitution, which...cowardly disposition,» prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside. With the same hand,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1833 - 442 pages
...journies were performed at night, and by unknown or unfrequented roads, they • Gibbon says concisely of " that subtle tyrant— a cool head, an unfeeling...a cowardly disposition prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of hypocrtsy, which he never afterwards laid aside. With the same hand,... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Coins - 1834 - 392 pages
...damnatory blot in the escutcheon of Augustus, was the infamous proscription to which he was a party: "a cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition, prompted him," says Gibbon, " at the age of 19, to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...The tender respect of Augustus CharKttrmi for a free constitution which he had I..HI .•.*•*«• destroyed, can only be explained by ""*"* an attentive...cowardly disposition, prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside. With the same hand,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...constitution which he had^lestroyed^mtiey of Anguscan only be explained by an» attentiv«?*'^consideration of the character of that subtle tyrant. A cool head, an unfeeling heartfand a cowardly disposition, prompted him, -at the age of iiine^en, to assume the mask of hypocrisy,... | |
 | Robert Lynam - Emperors - 1850 - 540 pages
...says) "for a free constitution, which AronsTus, he had destroyed, can only be explained by an vJ^J, attentive consideration of the character of that subtle...cowardly disposition, prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of h3Tpocrisy, which he never afterward laid aside. With the same hand,... | |
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The tender respect of Augustus for a free constitution which he had destroyed can only be explained by an attentive consideration of the character of that subtle tyrant. A cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition, prompted him at the... 
