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Page 20 - We recollect how the greatest of English statesmen, bowed down by years and infirmity like Appius, but roused like him by the dread of approaching dishonour to the English name, was led by his son and son-in-law into the House of Lords, and all the peers with one impulse arose to receive him. We know the expiring words of that mighty voice, when he protested against the dismemberment of this ancient monarchy, and prayed that if England must fall, she might fall with honour. The real speech of Lord...
Page 100 - CommentarH, which are his only works that have come down to us. They relate the history of the first seven years of the Gallic War in seven books, and the history of the civil war, down to the commencement of the Alexandrine, in three books.
Page 20 - ... memory in our own house of parliament. We recollect how the greatest of English statesmen, bowed down by years and infirmity like Appius, but roused like him by the dread of approaching dishonour to the English name, was led by his son and son-in-law into the House of Lords, and all the peers with one impulse arose to receive him. We know the expiring words of that mighty voice, when he protested against the...
Page 101 - ... is impossible to close this brief sketch of the Prose Literature of the last age of the Republic without some notice of Cicero's writings. Of his oratory and of his letters something has been said in former pages ; and it is to these productions that we must attribute the great Orator's chief merits in the Commonwealth of Letters. Of his poems it were better to say nothing. Of his memoirs and historical writings little has been preserved, unless we count the fragments of " The Republic