The Historians' History of the World: The early Roman empireHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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... received much from the East both of good and evil , but gave it practically no fresh intellectual impulse ; its chief contribu- tion to Græco - Oriental civilisation was the establishment of order , the guarantee of personal safety ...
... received much from the East both of good and evil , but gave it practically no fresh intellectual impulse ; its chief contribu- tion to Græco - Oriental civilisation was the establishment of order , the guarantee of personal safety ...
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... received by the senators , who would not hear of any diminution of their exclusive class privileges ; and even the Spaniard Seneca has nothing but angry scorn for the defunct emperor who wanted to make the whole world a present of the ...
... received by the senators , who would not hear of any diminution of their exclusive class privileges ; and even the Spaniard Seneca has nothing but angry scorn for the defunct emperor who wanted to make the whole world a present of the ...
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... received its first stable provincial organisation at his hands . Cæsar , its conqueror , had not had time to secure and consoli- date what his sword had won by a permanent organisation ; the old system of local divisions was still in ...
... received its first stable provincial organisation at his hands . Cæsar , its conqueror , had not had time to secure and consoli- date what his sword had won by a permanent organisation ; the old system of local divisions was still in ...
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... received one dena- rius daily , a sum which may equal eightpence half - penny of English money . A part of this sum was stopped for his arms , implements , and accoutrements ; but he retained perhaps a larger proportion of it than the ...
... received one dena- rius daily , a sum which may equal eightpence half - penny of English money . A part of this sum was stopped for his arms , implements , and accoutrements ; but he retained perhaps a larger proportion of it than the ...
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... received the sense of a Roman designation of the German people . Again it was thought to be derived from a Celtic word which designated the Ger- mans as " criers , " on account of the terrifying war cry with which they entered into ...
... received the sense of a Roman designation of the German people . Again it was thought to be derived from a Celtic word which designated the Ger- mans as " criers , " on account of the terrifying war cry with which they entered into ...
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The Historians' History of the World: The early Roman empire Henry Smith Williams Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1908 |
The Historians' History of the World: The early Roman empire Henry Smith Williams Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1907 |
The Historians' History of the World: The early Roman empire Henry Smith Williams Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1904 |
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Side 306 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom.
Side 662 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Side 662 - ROMAN EMPIRE OF THE SECOND CENTURY, or the Age of the Antonines.
Side 267 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
Side 554 - Your lives!" replied the haughty conqueror. They trembled and retired. Yet, before they retired, a short suspension of arms was granted, which allowed some time for a more temperate negotiation.
Side 450 - The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth, united in a single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantine. But as some decent mixture of prodigy and fable has, in every age, been supposed to reflect a becoming majesty on the origin of great...
Side 564 - Whether fame, or conquest, or riches, were the object of Alaric, he pursued that object with an indefatigable ardour, which could neither be quelled by adversity, nor satiated by success. No sooner had he reached the extreme land of Italy, than he was attracted by the neighbouring prospect of a fair and peaceful island.
Side 452 - The magistrates of the most distant provinces were therefore directed to institute schools, to appoint professors, and, by the hopes of rewards and privileges, to engage in the study and practice of architecture a sufficient number of ingenious youths who had received a liberal...
Side 561 - The private revenge of forty thousand slaves was exercised without pity or remorse ; and the ignominious lashes which they had formerly received were washed away in the blood of the guilty or obnoxious families.
Side 664 - The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome to the Destruction of the Western Empire.