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1641 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 254.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… their votes to the highest bidder, and perhaps have a share in the promised more equable division of the good things which were monopolized by the rich.
1642 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 255.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… —his vote. Consequently, with the rich, able only to buy political power, and with the poor, able only to sell his vote, the elections, once pure, became matters of …
1643 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 256.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… vote. The votes of the great body of the populace were for sale; and as only those who could control sufficient wealth were able to buy enough votes to elect …
1644 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 258.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the vote. From the beginning, the functions of the tribunes were that they should be the defenders of the people and the guardians of the rights of the people …
1645 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 262.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… his vote, and the effect of this law was greatly to increase the value of that commodity; because as he was now virtually supported by the State, he became more …
1646 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 262.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the votes of those who now possessed the franchise. Such a calamity as that never could be borne. The course of the Senate might have been one of misrule, but …
1647 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 273.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… a vote in the assembly, by which this privilege was restored to the people.
1648 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 274.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… sufficient votes to elect one or the other of their two candidates. Caesar likewise spent money freely, although deep in debt already. When he left home for …
1649 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 276.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… special vote, indeed, he “was permitted to wear his triumphal robe in the Senate as often and as long as it might please him;” but with this the Senate intended …
1650 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 277.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… command votes. More than this, during his absence, the senatorial party had employed the time in strenuous efforts and by all means in their power, to destroy …
1651 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 282.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the vote to be taken. The bribed tribunes interposed their veto. Bibulus declared that he had consulted the auspices,—had read the sky,—and that they were unfavorable …
1652 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 283.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… the vote of the juryman were to be had for money; for money the lady of quality surrendered her person, as well as the common courtezan; falsifying of documents …
1653 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 284.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… , and voted to Caesar for five years the command of Illyria and Gaul within the Alps; but as there were some fears from the barbarians of Gaul beyond the Alps …
1654 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 284.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… to vote upon it. The assembly returned, and drove them out with more bloodshed; and certainly to prevent all question as to what had been done, passed a second …
1655 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 286.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… to vote, and it was defeated. Then the consul and his partizans dressed themselves in mourning, and went straight to Pompey, declared the city in danger, placed …
1656 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 287.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… reply voted the State in danger, suspended the laws, ordered an immediate levy of troops, and gave the consuls sole power to provide for the public safety. The …
1657 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 290.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… people voted him the money in the treasury. He took what he needed; and as Spain and the Mediterranean coast of Gaul were yet subject to Pompey, he went in a few …
1658 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 292.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… Senate voted in his favor a national thanksgiving to continue forty days. When he returned, they voted him not one triumph, but four, with intervals of several …
1659 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 293.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… . It voted a national thanksgiving to continue fifty days, decreed him another triumph, conferred upon him the power to extend the bounds of the city, and erected …
1660 The Great Empires of Prophecy, from Babylon to the Fall of Rome, p. 304.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… Senate voted to the triumvirs civic crowns as “the saviors of their country”![Page 305] “Lives of the Caesars,” Augustus, chap 27.