In the obscure freedom of a private station, the son indulged his taste for wine and women; yet he supported, with credit, the character of a Christian and a soldier.
Such has been the temper of my reign, that I can retire, without regret, and without apprehension, to the obscurity of a private station.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station.
Let his own deposition be proposed by Octavius; he would walk quietly away into a private station, if this were the will of the citizens.
They had staked their lives against the chance of empire, and suffered what they would have inflicted; nor did Severus claim the arrogant superiority of suffering his rivals to live in a private station.
The concern of his successor was probably less sincere; he esteemed the virtues of Pertinax, but those virtues would forever have confined his ambition to a private station.
Theodosius punished her for this with undue severity, by removing all the officers who attended her and reducing her to private station.
She had to endure all the insults which could fall to one who from supreme power had been reduced to private station.
It was only in the age of chivalry, that valor could ascend from a private station to the thrones of Jerusalem and Constantinople.
Accordingly the senate returned thanks to the gods, because Camillus was in office; for (they knew) that it would have been necessary to nominate him dictator, if he were in a private station.
That Superbus being expelled, the government was in the hands of Collatinus: that the Tarquinii knew not how to live in a private station; the name pleased them not; that it was dangerous to liberty.
If there will be any use of me, such use will be derived not in a less degree from me in a private station.
The former, by lawful means and by his great abilities, raised himself from a private station to the dukedom of Milan, and maintained with but little difficulty what had cost him so much trouble to acquire.
Such were the emperors who from a private station arrived at the empire by corrupting the soldiery.
For, unless men possess superior genius or courage, how can they know in what manner to govern others who have themselves always been accustomed to a private station?
It was indeed a mental training which, particularly in those 'fifties which now seem so remote from us, would have been deemed only appropriate for the cleverest of boys in a private station.
If fate had compelled her eldest son to earn his own living in a private station, it is extraordinary to think of the number of professions in any one of which he could have attained a competence, if not indeed high distinction.
For he saw not how from himself, who was in a private station, punishment should come upon Astyages; but when he saw Cyrus growing up, he endeavoured to make him an ally, finding a likeness between the fortunes of Cyrus and his own.
Nevertheless Titus both as a general and an ambassador always met with complete success, while Philopœmen acted as vigorously and successfully on behalf of the Achæans when in a private station as when he was their general.
With some good qualities and his moderate abilities, he might have been a respectable man in a private station.
His lofty carriage, his immense wealth, and the splendour in which he lived, caused him to appear too great for a private station, while his pride and vulgar ostentation made him generally disliked.
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