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William Stearns Davis A Friend Of Caesar A Tale Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. Time 50-47 B.C. Part 1

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It Was The Roman Month Of September, Seven Hundred And Four Years After Romulus--So Tradition Ran--Founded The Little Village By The Tiber Which Was To Become "Mother Of Nations," "Centre Of The World," "Imperial Rome." To State The Time According To Modern Standards It Was July, Fifty Years Before The Beginning Of The Christian Era. The Fierce Italian Sun Was Pouring Down Over The Tilled Fields And Stretches Of Woodland And Grazing Country That Made Up The Landscape, And The Atmosphere Was Almost Aglow With The Heat. The Dust Lay Thick On The Pavement Of The Highway, [mehr]

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William Stearns Davis A Friend Of Caesar A Tale Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. Time 50-47 B.C. Part 2

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Cornelia Was At Baiae, The Famous Watering-Place, Upon The Classic Neapolitan Bay,--Which Was The Brighton Or Newport Of The Roman. Here Was The Haunt Of The Sybarites, Whose Gay Barks Skimmed The Shallow Waters Of The Lucrine Lake; And Not Far Off Slumbered In Its Volcanic Hollow That Other Lake, Avernus, Renowned In Legend And Poetry, Through Whose Caverns, Fable Had It, Lay The Entrance To The World Of The Dead. [mehr]

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William Stearns Davis A Friend Of Caesar A Tale Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Part 1

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If This Book Serves To Show That Classical Life Presented Many Phases Akin To Our Own, It Will Not Have Been Written In Vain. After The Book Was Planned And In Part Written, It Was Discovered That Archdeacon Farrar Had In His Story Of "Darkness And Dawn" A Scene, "Onesimus And The Vestal," Which Corresponds Very Closely To The Scene, "Agias And The Vestal," In This Book; But The Latter Incident Was Too Characteristically Roman Not To Risk Repetition. [mehr]

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William Stearns Davis A Friend Of Caesar A Tale Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Part 2

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Cornelia Was At Baiae, The Famous Watering-Place, Upon The Classic Neapolitan Bay,--Which Was The Brighton Or Newport Of The Roman. Here Was The Haunt Of The Sybarites, Whose Gay Barks Skimmed The Shallow Waters Of The Lucrine Lake; And Not Far Off Slumbered In Its Volcanic Hollow That Other Lake, Avernus, Renowned In Legend And Poetry, Through Whose Caverns, Fable Had It, Lay The Entrance To The World Of The Dead. The Whole Country About Was One City Of Stately Villas, Of Cool Groves, Of Bright Gardens; A Huge Pleasure World, Where Freedom Too Often Became License; Where The Dregs Of The Nectar Cup Too Often Meant Physical Ruin And Moral Death. [mehr]

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William Stearns Davis A Friend Of Caesar A Tale Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.

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After The Book Was Planned And In Part Written, It Was Discovered That Archdeacon Farrar Had In His Story Of "Darkness And Dawn" A Scene, "Onesimus And The Vestal," Which Corresponds Very Closely To The Scene, "Agias And The Vestal," In This Book; But The Latter Incident Was Too Characteristically Roman Not To Risk Repetition. If It Is Asked Why Such A Book As This Is Desirable After Those Noble Fictions, "Darkness And Dawn" And "Quo Vadis," The Reply Must Be That These Books Necessarily Take And Interpret The Christian Point Of View. And They Do Well; But The Pagan Point Of View Still Needs Its Interpretation, At Least As A Help To An Easy Apprehension Of The Life And Literature Of The Great Age Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. This Is The Aim Of "A Friend Of Caesar." The Age Of Caesar Prepared The Way For The Age Of Nero, When Christianity Could Find A World In a State Of Such Culture, Unity, And Social Stability That It Could Win An Adequate And Abiding Triumph. [mehr]

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William Stearns Davis A Friend Of Caesar A Tale Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.

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If this book serves to show that Classical Life presented many phases akin to our own, it will not have been written in vain. After the book was planned and in part written, it was discovered that Archdeacon Farrar had in his story of Darkness and Dawn a scene, Onesimus and the Vestal, which corresponds very closely to the scene, Agias and the Vestal, in this book; but the latter incident was too characteristically Roman not to risk repetition. If it is asked why such a book as this is desirable after those noble fictions, Darkness and Dawn and QuoVadis, the reply must be that these books necessarily take and interpret the Christian point of view. And they do well; but the Pagan point of view still needs its interpretation, at least as a help to an easy apprehension of the life and literature of the great age of the Fall of the Roman Republic. This is the aim of A Friend of Caesar. The Age of Caesar prepared the way for the Age of Nero, when Christianity could find a world in a state of such culture, unity, and social stability that it could win an adequate and abiding triumph. Great care has been taken to keep to strict historical probability; but in one scene, the Expulsion of the Tribunes, there is such a confusion of accounts in the authorities themselves that I have taken some slight liberties. W.S. D.Harvard University, January 16, [mehr]

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Duncan McGregor The Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay Narrated in a Letter to a Friend

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You are aware that the Kent, Captain Henry Cobb, a fine new ship of 1,350 tons, bound to [mehr]

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William Stearns Davis (April 30, 1877 – February 15, 1930) was an American educator, historian, and author. He [mehr]

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Duncan McGregor The Loss of the Kent, East Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay Narrated in a Letter to a Friend

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Duncan McGregor (16 July 1881 – 11 March 1947), was a New Zealand rugby union and rugby league footballer. He was a member of the legendary 1905 Original All Blacks and later converted to rugby league when he went on the 1907 New Zealand league tour of Britain and Australia. He stayed in Britain following the 1907–08 tour, and opened a sport store as well as playing for Merthyr Tydfil RLFC. [mehr]

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