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Title: Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Savage, Charles C., 1820-1907
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: Buffalo, Phinney & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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een honored with four several triumphs, he was declared perpet-ual dictator; a title which some of his friends wished to altar to that of king.And as the great body of the Roman people, dazzled by his military genius, andgratified by the liberality of his largesses, were insensible of, or indifferentto, his insatiable thirst for domination, it is more than probable that he wouldhave become an absolute king, but that Brutus and other republicans penetratedhis designs, and sternly resolved to make his life the sacrifice to the freedomof his country. Notwithstanding dark hints had been given to him of his dan-ger, he attended a meeting of the senate without taking any measures for thesafety of his person, and fell beneath the daggers of the conspirators on theides of March in the year 43 B. C., and in the fifty-sixth of his age. The learning of Caesar deserves commendation as well as his military char-acter. He reformed the calendar. He wrote his Commentaries on the Gallic JULIUS CAESAR.
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42 VIRGIL. wars on the spot where he fought his battles ; and the composition has been ad-mired for the elegance as well as the correctness of its style. This valuablebook was nearly lost; and when Caesar saved his life in the bay of Alexandria,he was obliged to swim from his ship, with his arms in one hand, and his Com-mentaries in the other. Besides the Gallic and civil wars, he wrote otherpieces, which are now lost. His qualities were such that in every battle hecould not but be conqueror, and in a civil position master ; and to his sense ofhis superiority over the rest of the world, or to his ambition, we are to attrib-ute his saving that he rather be first in a little village than second at Rome. */ O It was after his conquest over Pharnaces in one day, that he made use of theseremarkable words to express the celerity of his operations : Veni, vidi, vici!When he was in his first campaign in Spain, he was observed to gaze at astatue of Alexander, and even shed tears at the recolle

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