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" When the multitude think proper, they sit down armed. Silence is proclaimed by the priests, who have on these occasions the right of keeping order. Then the king or the chief, according to age, birth, distinction in war, or eloquence, is heard, more because... "
The Commentaries of Caesar - Page 38
by Anthony Trollope - 1877 - 182 pages
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The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus. Tr. by A.J. Church and W.J. Brodribb

Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1868 - 180 pages
...Silence is proclaimed by the priests, who have on these occasions the right ot keeping order. Then the king or the chief, according to age, birth, distinction...to persuade than because he has power to command. If his sentiments displease them, they reject them with murmurs ; if they are satisfied, they brandish...
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The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus: And the Dialogue on Oratory

Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 276 pages
...Silence is proclaimed by the priests, who have on these occasions the right of keeping order. Then the king or the chief, according to age, birth, distinction...to persuade than because he has power to command. If his sentiments displease them, they reject them with murmurs ; if they are satisfied, they brandish...
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Tacitus

William Bodham Donne - 1883 - 202 pages
...they applied in earnest to business. A century has not elapsed since members of our House of Commons wore small swords in St. Stephen's Chapel ; and the...Parliament. Of their skill in husbandry Tacitus has little favorable to say. The vine was yet to be introduced into Rhinclaud, fruit-trees were rarely if ever...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern, Volume 36

Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 630 pages
...Silence is proclaimed by the priests, who have on these occasions the right of keeping order. Then the king or the chief — according to age, birth,...to persuade than because he has power to command. If his sentiments displease them, they reject them with murmurs; if they are satisfied, they brandish...
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Selections from the Sources of English History: Being a Supplement to Text ...

Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 pages
...Silence is proclaimed by the priests, who have on these occasions the right of keeping order. Then the king or the chief, according to age, birth, distinction...to persuade than because he has power to command. If his sentiments displease them, they reject them with murmurs ; if they are satisfied, they brandish...
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Selections from the Sources of English History: Being a Supplement to Text ...

Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 pages
...Silence is proclaimed by the priests, who have on these occasions the right of keeping order. Then the king or the chief, according to age, birth, distinction...to persuade than because he has power to command. If his sentiments displease them, they reject them with murmurs ; if they are satisfied, they brandish...
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Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and Readers

Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 540 pages
...Silence is proclaimed by the priests, who have on these occasions the right of keeping order. Then the king or the chief, according to age, birth, distinction...to persuade than because he has power to command. If his sentiments displease them, they reject them with murmurs; if they are satisfied, they brandish...
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By the People: Arguments and Authorities for Direct Legislation Or the ...

Eltweed Pomeroy - 1900 - 132 pages
...occasions, the right of keeping order. Then the king or chief, according to age, birth, distinction or eloquence, is heard, more because he has influence...to persuade than because he has power to command. If his sentiments displease them they reject them with murmurs; if they are satisfied they brandish...
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Essentials in English History: (from the Earliest Records to the Present Day)

Albert Perry Walker - 1905 - 604 pages
...Tmania, if. CELTS AGAINST TEUTONS titude see fit to do so, they seat themselves in full armor. Then the king or the chief, according to age, birth, distinction...because he has influence to persuade than because he has the authority to command. If his sentiments displease them, they reject them by murmuring; if they...
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Idealism in Education: Or, Firs Principles in the Making of Men and Women

Herman Harrell Horne - 1910 - 218 pages
...writes : " About minor matters the chiefs deliberate, about the more important the whole tribe. . . . The king or the chief — according to age, birth,...to persuade than because he has power to command. If his sentiments displease them, they reject them with murmurs ; if they are satisfied, they brandish...
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