Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... Jugurtha . The Patricians are offend- ed at this . But where would be the wisdom of giving such a command to one of their honourable body ? A person of illustrious birth , of ancient family , of innumerable statues-- but of no ...
... Jugurtha . The Patricians are offend- ed at this . But where would be the wisdom of giving such a command to one of their honourable body ? A person of illustrious birth , of ancient family , of innumerable statues-- but of no ...
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... Jugurtha . FATHERS ! IT is known to you , that king Micipsa , my father , on his death - bed , left in charge to Jugurtha , his adopted son , conjunctly with my unfortunate brother , Hiempsal , and my- self , the children of his own ...
... Jugurtha . FATHERS ! IT is known to you , that king Micipsa , my father , on his death - bed , left in charge to Jugurtha , his adopted son , conjunctly with my unfortunate brother , Hiempsal , and my- self , the children of his own ...
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... Jugurtha has driven me from the very dominions which the senate and the people of Rome gave to my ances tors ; and from which my grandfather , and my father , un Jer your umbrage , expelled Syphax and the Carthagenians . Thus , Fathers ...
... Jugurtha has driven me from the very dominions which the senate and the people of Rome gave to my ances tors ; and from which my grandfather , and my father , un Jer your umbrage , expelled Syphax and the Carthagenians . Thus , Fathers ...
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... Jugurtha has butchered all whom he suspected to be in my interest . Some have been destroyed by the lingering torment of the cross . Others have been given a prey to wild beasts , and their an- guish made the sport of men more cruel ...
... Jugurtha has butchered all whom he suspected to be in my interest . Some have been destroyed by the lingering torment of the cross . Others have been given a prey to wild beasts , and their an- guish made the sport of men more cruel ...
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