Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero Against Caius Cornelius Verres
Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."
The Trial of Warren Hastings
Author: Chiara RolliPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350112747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial had a formative impact on the British Empire. Chiara Rolli shows that in an age when British education consisted mainly of classical studies, it was antique views of rhetoric and imperial governance that permeated the trial. Prosecutor Edmund Burke was figured as a modern-day Cicero fighting corruption in the colonies, while Hastings was Verres, the corrupt propraetor of Sicily in the first century BC. In their prosecution, both Burke and Richard Brinsley Sheridan employed certain coups de théâtre – such as fainting for emphasis – advised by Cicero and the later Roman rhetorician Quintilian, whose style of spectacular justice played particularly well amid the eighteenth-century vogue for sentimental drama. Burke's defence of natural rights and passion for extirpating vice in the colonies similarly reflected an admiration for Cicero, just as Hastings' preference to rule the conquered by means of their own traditions recalled models of Roman provincial administration. Using contemporary journalism, satire and other ephemera, the book reconstructs the public's equally profound grasp of these parallels. It illuminates new aspects of early British discourse around the Empire, and shows how deeply classical precedents influenced the cultural and political imaginations of eighteenth-century Britain.
The Review of English Studies
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Includes a section: Summary of periodical literature.
A View of the English Editions, Translations, and Illustrations of the Ancient Greek and Latin Authors
Author: Ludwig Wilhelm BrüggemannPublisher:
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Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
“A” View of the English Editions, Translations and Illustrations of the Ancient Greek and Latin Authors, with Remarks
Author: Lewis Wilhelm BrüggemannPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books, Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library. Library CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
A View of the English Editions, Translations, and Commentaries of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius CiceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Author: