The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2Baudry's European Library, 1840 |
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Side 3
... caused him to be called the Chris- tian Cicero . Anon . Gent.-G. Yet no unprejudiced person can read this coarse and particular private conversation of the two emperors , without assenting to the justice of Gibbon's severe sentence ...
... caused him to be called the Chris- tian Cicero . Anon . Gent.-G. Yet no unprejudiced person can read this coarse and particular private conversation of the two emperors , without assenting to the justice of Gibbon's severe sentence ...
Side 5
... caused all the post - horses which he had used , t be hamstrung . Such a bloody execution , without preventing a pursuit , would have scattered suspicion , and might have stopped his journey . * ( 14 ) Anonym . p . 710. Panegyr . Veter ...
... caused all the post - horses which he had used , t be hamstrung . Such a bloody execution , without preventing a pursuit , would have scattered suspicion , and might have stopped his journey . * ( 14 ) Anonym . p . 710. Panegyr . Veter ...
Side 9
... cause of the Roman people . Two Præ- torian tribunes and a commissary of provisions undertook the ma- nagement of the conspiracy ; and as every order of men was actuated by the same spirit , the immediate event was neither doubtful nor ...
... cause of the Roman people . Two Præ- torian tribunes and a commissary of provisions undertook the ma- nagement of the conspiracy ; and as every order of men was actuated by the same spirit , the immediate event was neither doubtful nor ...
Side 11
... cause of Rome and of the senate ; but his professions were ambiguous ; and his assistance slow and ineffectual . He considered with atten tion the approaching war between the masters of Italy and the em- peror of the East , and was ...
... cause of Rome and of the senate ; but his professions were ambiguous ; and his assistance slow and ineffectual . He considered with atten tion the approaching war between the masters of Italy and the em- peror of the East , and was ...
Side 12
... causes for the failure of the expedition ; but they are both of such a nature , that a cautious historian will hardly venture to adopt them . We are told that Galerius , who had formed a very imperfect notion of the great- ness of Rome ...
... causes for the failure of the expedition ; but they are both of such a nature , that a cautious historian will hardly venture to adopt them . We are told that Galerius , who had formed a very imperfect notion of the great- ness of Rome ...
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