This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...wrong." She ruled without a rival over Claudius and through him over the world. It was the government of a woman, but it was, we are told even by her enemies, no longer that of a woman of loose and dissolute manners like Messalina, who delighted in mocking the people by a reign of profligacy and vilest crime. Agrippina ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...wrong." She ruled without a rival over Claudius and through him over the world. It was the government of a woman, but it was, we are told even by her enemies, no longer that of a woman of loose and dissolute manners like Messalina, who delighted in mocking the people by a reign of profligacy and vilest crime. Agrippina ruled with a firm hand aifd maintained her supremacy with the vigor of a manly spirit. She was rigorous in her public conduct, and allowed no irregularity within the imperial palace. Vice was often subservient to her schemes--she had never learnt to look upon it otherwise than as a vile but useful slave, fit to be employed for the highest as well as for the lowest purposes--but it never was her ruling passion, as it had been with Messalina. If she showed too great a love of money, it was for the wants of the throne and not of her person. As vindictive, as cruel and unscrupulous as her shameless predecessor, she was saved by the nobler instincts of her nature and the inborn elevation of her character from all meanness; her crimes even had a certain grandeur and her wickedness a magnificence proportionate to the great empire over which she ruled and the vast distance which divided her from the rest of her race. Her first great purpose now was to remove every woman that could be in her way at court or interfere with her exclusive control over Claudius. The fearful struggle with Messalina had cost her too many days of anguish and too many sleepless nights--though she had never allowed the world to see that she had any part in it, but had always acted through others--to risk the peace of her life and the realization of her ambitious plans once more in a like conflict. Her most formidable rival had been the rich Lollia, and upon her, therefore...
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