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Stoicism
William Wolfe Capes
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R876
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Stoicism
William Wolfe Capes
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R617
Discovery Miles 6 170
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER I. AUGUSTUS: B.C. 31?A.D. 14. The victory of Actium had
made Octavianus the undisputed master of the Roman world. One by
one rivals and obstacles had been swept away, and the The remark-
., L . . able change patient schemer had now mounted to the top-
anusCafter he most round of the ladder of ambition. Dur- gained
abso- ing the troublous years of the long struggle for m, P, n, i
p0wer his public life had been one course of selfish aims,
unscrupulous acts, and makeshift policy; he had yet to prove that
there was anything of real and abiding greatness in his schemes to
raise him from the ranks of mere political adventurers. But from
this time we may trace a seeming change of character, which is the
more remarkable because it is so hard to parallel. It was no change
of measures only, such as often comes with new conditions, such as
that not a mere ' change of which made the founder of the dynasty
90 lcy reverse much of the policy of earlier years. For,
spendthrift and prodigal as Julius had been before, he used his
power to curtail extravagance, sent police agents to the markets,
and even to the houses of the wealthy, to put down luxury by force;
the leader of the popular party forbade the growth of guilds and
social clubs like those which had often carried the elections in
his favour; the favourite of the populace was anxious to check the
spread of pauperism by sterner measures; the revolutionary general
whose tent had been the refuge of the men of tarnished name and
ruined fortunes baffled all their hopes of plunder, by passing
stringent measures to restore credit and to curb official greed.
Octavianus also in like case resorted to like policy. One of his
firstcares was to repeal the unconstitutional acts of his earlier
Jife, and so to close the pe...
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