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" The private soldiers fight and die, to advance the wealth and luxury of the great; and they are called masters of the world, while they have not a foot of ground in their possession. "
A History of Rome - Page 200
by Robert Fowler Leighton - 1878 - 521 pages
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Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes ..., Volume 5

Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - Greece - 1794 - 450 pages
...that be" longed to his anceftors, or a fepulchre in which their " afhes reft. The private foldiers fight and die, to advance " the wealth and luxury of the great; and they are called * mafters of the world, while they have not a foot of ground " in their poffeffion." Such fpeeches...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3

Plutarch - Greece - 1795 - 452 pages
...sltar that be' longed to his anchors, or a fepulchre in which their ' afhes relt. The private foldiers fight and die, to advance ' the wealth and luxury of the great; and they are called ' matters of the world, while they have not a foot of ground ' in their pofleflion." Such fpeeches...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 5

Plutarch - Classical biography - 1803 - 454 pages
...and domestic gods: F.or, among su^h num." bers, perhaps there is not a Roman who has an altar that " belonged to his ancestors, or a sepulchre in which...masters of the world, while they have not a foot of " ground in their possession." Such speeches as this, delivered by a man of such spirit, and flowing...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 6

Plutarch - Greece - 1811 - 356 pages
...lias belonged to his ancestors, OF a sepulchre in which their ashes rest. They fight and die, in order to advance the wealth and luxury of the great; and...masters of the world, while they have not a foot of ground in their possession." Such speeches as this, delivered by a man of so much spirit, and flowing...
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Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne, Volume 5

Plutarchus - 1819 - 524 pages
...domestic gods. For out of such " numbers there is not perhaps a single Roman, who " has an altar that has belonged to his ancestors, or " a sepulchre in which their ashes rest. They fight " and die, in order to advance the wealth and luxury " of the great ; and they are called...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 7

Plutarch - Greece - 1821 - 322 pages
...sepulchres and domestic gods : for, among such numbers, perhaps there is not a Roman who has an altar that belonged to his ancestors, or a sepulchre in which...masters of the world, while they have not a foot of ground in their possession." Such speeches as this, delivered by a man of such spirit, and flowing...
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Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes Historical ..., Volume 3

Plutarch - 1822 - 550 pages
...sepulchres and domestic gods: for among such numbers, perhaps there is not a Roman who has an altar that belonged, to his ancestors, or a sepulchre in which...great; and they are called masters of the world, while thi-y have not a foot of ground in their possession." Such speeches as this, delivered by a man of...
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Memoir of the life of Josiah Quincy jun. of Massachusetts

Josiah Quincy - 1825 - 600 pages
...command — obedience must follow. " Private soldiers," said Tiberius Gracchus from the Roman rostrum, " fight and die to advance the wealth and luxury of the great." t " Soldiers," said an eminent Puritan, in his sermon, preached in this country more than a hundred...
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Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes ..., Volume 4

Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - Greece - 1826 - 446 pages
...power chiefly lies in the negative voice, and if one of them stands out, the rest can effect nothing. or a sepulchre in which their ashes rest . The private...masters of the world, while they have not a foot of ground in their possession." Incensed by this behaviour, Tiberius dropped his moderate bill, and proposed...
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The African Observer

Slavery - 1828 - 390 pages
...and domestic gods. For out of such numbers, there is not perhaps a single Roman who has an altar that belonged to his ancestors, or a sepulchre in which their ashes rest. They fight and die in order to advance the wealth and luxury of the great ; and they are 58 59 called...
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