The letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to several of his friends, with remarks [and tr.] by W. Melmoth, Volume 2 |
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Page 230 - Republic; and being also the constant farmers of all the revenues of the empire, had a great part of the inferior people dependent upon them. Cicero imagined, that the united weight of these two...
Page 269 - ... it; you may see many a smart rhetorician turning his hat in his hands, moulding it into several different cocks, examining sometimes the lining of it, and sometimes the button, during the whole course of his harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver, when perhaps he is talking of the fate of the British nation.
Page 141 - ... free from the disorder in my stomach ; which was the more painful, as I saw it occasioned both you and that dear girl, whom I love better than my life, so much uneasiness. I discovered the cause of this complaint the night after I left you, having discharged a great quantity of phlegm. This gave me so immediate a relief, that I cannot but believe I owe my cure to some heavenly interposition ; to Apollo, no doubt, and ^Esculapius. You will offer up your grateful tributes therefore to these restoring...
Page 395 - I mould have produced examples not only from hiftory, but in the perfons of our leaders and aflbdates in this unhappy war, of thofe who have AU 707. fuffered the moft fevere calamities : and fhould have alfo cited feveral illuftrious inftances of the fame fort from foreign ftory. For to reflect on the misfortunes to which mankind in general are expofed, greatly contributes to alleviate the weight of thofe which we ourfelves endure. In fhort, I...
Page 214 - I hope, however, the time of your coming hither is approaching, and that your company will afford me consolation under our general misfortunes : tho' indeed they are so numerous and so severe, that it is a folly to expect any thing will be sufficient for that purpose. Nevertheless, there are some instances perhaps in which we may prove of mutual assistance to each other : for since my return to Rome...
Page 207 - I flill preferve my former Authority in the Commonwealth: and wifh me Joy in the other of my late Marriage. With...
Page 71 - ... under a necessity of declaring myself on one side or the other. However, since there is no avoiding the scene which fortune has prepared for me, I shall be the more expeditious in my journey, that I may the better deliberate on the several circumstances which must determine my choice. Let me entreat you to meet me as far on my way as your health will permit. The legacy which Precius has left me, is an acquisition that I receive with great concern: as I tenderly loved him, and extremely lament...
Page 365 - ... audacious Catiline, and filenced the eloquent Hortenfius. It was this that deprived Curio of all power of recollection, when he rofe up to oppofe that great mafter of enchanting rhetoric : it was this, in a word, made even...
Page 72 - I defire you would fend proper directions thither for that purpofe. As for my other affairs, I hope I fhall be able to fettle them myfelf: for I purpofe to be in Italy, if the gods favour my voyage, about the ijth of November.
Page 307 - I know you are never fparirig of your boafts : but I know too> that they have the ill luck never to be credited. It is in the fame fpirit you remind me, that you offered yourfelf as a candidate for the tribunitial office, merely in order to fervc me 5.