 | 1801 - Počet stránok 446
...which are committed diverge from his heart, r.nd return to concentrate there. Caligula wished that the whole human race had but one head, that he might have the pleasure of striking it off! Socrates would have said, that if all the crimes of society could have been centered... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - Počet stránok 374
...a want of compassion. Thus Nero sent an assassin to murder his own mother, and wished that mankind had but one head, that he might have the pleasure of cutting it off. And what an instance of ingratitude and cruelty have we in Tullia ! Tullia was daughter of Servilius... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - Počet stránok 362
...a want of compassion. Thus Nero sent an assassin to murder his own mother, and wished that mankind had but one head, that he might have the pleasure of cutting it off. And what an instance of ingratitude and cruelty have we in Tullia ! Tullia was daughter of Servilius... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - Počet stránok 308
...after a storm. Tyranny, Oppression, Are not exactly synonymous. When Caligula wished the whole Empire had but one head, that he might have the pleasure of cutting it off, he expressed a tyranny the most diabolical. When one of our kings, to extort money from a wretched... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - Počet stránok 418
...a want of compassion. Thus, Nero sent an assassin to murder his own mother, and wished that mankind had but one head, that he might have the pleasure of cutting it off. And what an instance of ingratitude and cruelhave we in Tullía! Tullía was faughter of Servilius... | |
 | Gabriel Lucas de Montigny - 1836 - Počet stránok 936
...a writing subsequent to the above letter in the text. " When Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one head, that he might have the pleasure of cutting it off, he manifested at once both the aim and the impotency of despotism." — Reply to the Alarms of the... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1836 - Počet stránok 582
...modern tyrant aimed at realizing in the political body the desire of Nero, in wishing that all mankind had but one head, that he might have the pleasure of cutting it off. Those constitutions may be excellent for the countries for which they are designed, but will never... | |
 | Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - 1836 - Počet stránok 508
...a writing subsequent to the above letter in the text. " When Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one head, that he might have the pleasure of cutting it off, he manifested at once both the aim and the impotency of despotism." — Reply to the Alarms of the... | |
 | 1836 - Počet stránok 500
...modern tyrant aimed at realizing in the political body the desire of Nero, in wishing that all mankind had but one head, that he might have the pleasure of cutting it off. Those constitutions may be excellent for the countries for which they are designed, but will never... | |
 | Joseph Reeve - 1851 - Počet stránok 642
...Petavia, and with a kick killed his second wife, Poppea, big with child. He ol'ien wished the whole race had but one head, that he might have the pleasure...extensive plan, and of giving it his own name. These wild extravagances caused no small ferment among the citizens of Rome. He dreaded their resentment, and... | |
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... they produce nothing, they feed nobody, they clothe nobody, yet are high and stately, and look down upon all the world about them. " Ingratitude is generally attended with hard-heartedness, a want of compassion. Thus Nero sent an assassin to murder... 
