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... ( imperial Caesar in his many diabolical personifica- tions ) . The identification of seventeenth - century English events with first - century Roman ones , having its roots in the cyclical theory of history , shows the wheel of history ...
... ( imperial Caesar in his many diabolical personifica- tions ) . The identification of seventeenth - century English events with first - century Roman ones , having its roots in the cyclical theory of history , shows the wheel of history ...
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... imperial model of gaining autocratic power , while the triumphal reentry into Hell after the conquest of the earth by Satan in Book 10 again alludes to elements of imperial ritual in Rome . Yet this " triumph " enacted by Satan after ...
... imperial model of gaining autocratic power , while the triumphal reentry into Hell after the conquest of the earth by Satan in Book 10 again alludes to elements of imperial ritual in Rome . Yet this " triumph " enacted by Satan after ...
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... imperial ensign " ( 1.536 ) of the kind so dear to the hearts of Roman legions . The emblems of the em- peror's power are beginning to be accumulated around him in readiness for the time when he shall appear as emperor de jure according ...
... imperial ensign " ( 1.536 ) of the kind so dear to the hearts of Roman legions . The emblems of the em- peror's power are beginning to be accumulated around him in readiness for the time when he shall appear as emperor de jure according ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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