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Excerpt from Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Vol. 2 of 2 During this and the following year we have very few of Cicero's letters, which is explained by the fact that Atticus, his chief correspondent, was then at Rome. Atticus had made a journey into Greece and Asia Minor in the previous summer, but re turned in November, and the friends were together for the next two years. And as this work is not a history of Rome, but a biography of Cicero, ...

Excerpt from Hortensius: Or, the Advocate, An Historical Essay History of Greece, when speaking of the democratic form of government as treated of by Aristotle, says, We shall not confine ourselves to the technical lan guage of his system, but will endeavour to define the notion of democracy, as the word was commonly under stood by the Greeks, so as to separate the essence of the theory from the various accidents, which have sometimes been co...

Excerpt from History of Ancient Manuscripts: A Lecture Delivered in the Hall of the Inner Temple Veneranda antiquitatis cultor ct depredator. Scepticum pie egit, Credulitate puer, Audaci'a juvenis, Deliriis senex, Verbo dicam, hic jacet Harduinus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. For...

Excerpt from Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law and Various Points of English Jurisprudence, Collected and Digested From Official Documents and Other Sources: With Notes In the United States the Opinions of the Attorney Generals are published in eleven volumes, down even to the last two or three years, and surely no possible harm can ensue, but on the contrary much good may result, from knowing what the opinions have been, upon question...

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Excerpt from Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Vol. 1 of 2 My object has been to exhibit Cicero not only as an orator and a politician, but as he was in private life, surrounded by his family and fi'iends speaking and acting like other men in the ordinary affairs of home. And the more we accustom ourselves to re gard the ancients as persons of like passions as our selves, and familiarize ourselves with the idea of them as fathers, husbands, frie...

Excerpt from History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Letters and Journals of the Late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, and Official Documents Not Before Made Public The disease of the liver will. Make greater ravages during this period, and, if it should at length become incurable, who will have killed the Emperor? What has occurred during the last six months gives reason to fear a crisis every month, and, if we ...

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First published in 1849 in London under the title Hortensius: or, The Advocate, Forsyth's History of Lawyers is a spirited account of advocacy in ancient Greece, Rome, and England and of the bar in France. Acknowledging that "[w]e are too apt to cloth the ancients in buckram, and view them, as it were, through a magnifying glass, so that they loom before us in the dim distance in almost colossal proportions, " Forsyth presents in familiar term...