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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 10 0 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 8 0 Browse Search
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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 4 0 Browse Search
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sion of the Roman people probably was conclusive. The Roman Empire had the help of miracles in perfecting itself, he says, and then enumerates some of them. The first is that under Numa Pompilius, the second king of the Romans, when he was sacrificing according to the rite of the Gentiles, a shield fell from heaven into the city chosen of God. De Monarchia, Lib. II. ยง 4. In the Convito we find Virgil speaking in the person of God, and Aeacus wisely having recourse to God, the god being Jupiter. Convito, Tr. IV. c. 4; Ib., c. 27; Aeneid, I. 178, 179; Ovid's Met., VII. Ephialtes is punished in hell for rebellion against the Supreme Jove, Inferno, XXXI. 92. and, that there may be no misunderstanding, Dante elsewhere invokes the Jove Supreme, Who upon earth for us wast crucified. Purgatorio, VI. 118, 119. Pulci, not understanding, has parodied this. (Morgante, Canto II. st. 1.) It is noticeable also that Dante, with evident design, constantly alternates examples draw