The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1Phillips, Sampson, 1852 - Byzantine Empire |
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... hand , it is astonishing how rarely we detect contradiction ; the mind of the author has already harmonized the whole result to truth and probability ; the general impression is almost invariably the same . The quotations of Gibbon have ...
... hand , it is astonishing how rarely we detect contradiction ; the mind of the author has already harmonized the whole result to truth and probability ; the general impression is almost invariably the same . The quotations of Gibbon have ...
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... hands of the emperor ; that the independent tribes of the Median and Carduchian hills had implored his protection ; and that the rich countries of Armenia , Mesopotamia , and Assyria , were reduced into the state of provinces.21 But the ...
... hands of the emperor ; that the independent tribes of the Median and Carduchian hills had implored his protection ; and that the rich countries of Armenia , Mesopotamia , and Assyria , were reduced into the state of provinces.21 But the ...
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... hand which had imposed it . It was an ancient tradition , that when the Capitol was founded by one of the Roman kings , the god Terminus ( who presided over boundaries , and was represented , accord- ing to the fashion of that age , by ...
... hand which had imposed it . It was an ancient tradition , that when the Capitol was founded by one of the Roman kings , the god Terminus ( who presided over boundaries , and was represented , accord- ing to the fashion of that age , by ...
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... hand , it was impossible for cowardice or disobedience to es- cape the severest punishment . The centurions were author- ized to chastise with blows , the generals had a right to punish with death ; and it was an inflexible maxim of ...
... hand , it was impossible for cowardice or disobedience to es- cape the severest punishment . The centurions were author- ized to chastise with blows , the generals had a right to punish with death ; and it was an inflexible maxim of ...
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... hand the formidable pilum , a ponderous javelin , whose utmost length was about six feet , and which was terminated by a massy triangular point of steel of eighteen inches.44 This instru- ment was indeed much inferior to our modern fire ...
... hand the formidable pilum , a ponderous javelin , whose utmost length was about six feet , and which was terminated by a massy triangular point of steel of eighteen inches.44 This instru- ment was indeed much inferior to our modern fire ...
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Page 40 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 514 - He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger : for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Page 43 - In their writings and conversation, the philosophers of antiquity asserted the independent dignity of reason, but they resigned their actions to the commands of law and of custom. Viewing, with a smile of pity and indulgence, the various errors of the vulgar, they diligently practised the ceremonies of their fathers, devoutly frequented the temples of the gods, and sometimes condescending to act a part on the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal...
Page 100 - His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Page 211 - Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations; and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than for ostentation.
Page 544 - How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs, and fancied gods, groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness ; so many magistrates, who persecuted the name of the Lord, liquefying in fiercer fires than they ever kindled against the Christians ; so many sage philosophers blushing in red hot flames, with their deluded scholars...
Page 17 - That public virtue, which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members.
Page 41 - The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and respective influence; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile.
Page xii - The secrets of the hoary deep: a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, • And time, and place, are lost...
Page 366 - The most illustrious of the senate, the people, and the army closed the solemn procession. Unfeigned joy, wonder, and gratitude swelled the acclamations of the multitude ; but the satisfaction of the senate was clouded by the appearance of Tetricus ; nor could they suppress a rising murmur that the haughty emperor should thus expose to public ignominy the person of a Roman and a...