The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 2Abraham Small and M. Carey, 1810 |
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... Capital Situation of Byzantium PAGFA . D PAGE 219 The Governors of the Pro- 220 vinces 253 Description of CONSTANTINOPLE 221 The Bosphorus ib . The Profession of the Law ПI . The Military Officers 255 258 The Port of Constantinoplę 223 ...
... Capital Situation of Byzantium PAGFA . D PAGE 219 The Governors of the Pro- 220 vinces 253 Description of CONSTANTINOPLE 221 The Bosphorus ib . The Profession of the Law ПI . The Military Officers 255 258 The Port of Constantinoplę 223 ...
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... capital . The gloomy passions of his soul , shame , vexation , and rage , were inflamed by envy on the news of Constan- tine's success ; but the hopes of Maxentius revived with the public discontent , and he was easily pursua ded to ...
... capital . The gloomy passions of his soul , shame , vexation , and rage , were inflamed by envy on the news of Constan- tine's success ; but the hopes of Maxentius revived with the public discontent , and he was easily pursua ded to ...
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... capital . But the extent of a city serves only to render it more accessible to the enemy ; Rome had long since been accustomed to submit on the ap- proach of a conqueror ; nor could the temporary en- thusiasm of the people have long ...
... capital . But the extent of a city serves only to render it more accessible to the enemy ; Rome had long since been accustomed to submit on the ap- proach of a conqueror ; nor could the temporary en- thusiasm of the people have long ...
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... capital was no less deserving of compassion than that of Africa . The wealth of Rome supplied an inexhaustible fund for his vain and prodigal ex- penses , and the ministers of his revenue were skilled in the arts of rapine . It was ...
... capital was no less deserving of compassion than that of Africa . The wealth of Rome supplied an inexhaustible fund for his vain and prodigal ex- penses , and the ministers of his revenue were skilled in the arts of rapine . It was ...
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... though somewhat different , ac- counts of a tumult and massacre , which happened at Rome , in Eusebius ( P. viii . c . 14. ) and in Zosimus ( 1. ii . p . 84. ) XIV . the capital . Rome , which had so 24 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
... though somewhat different , ac- counts of a tumult and massacre , which happened at Rome , in Eusebius ( P. viii . c . 14. ) and in Zosimus ( 1. ii . p . 84. ) XIV . the capital . Rome , which had so 24 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
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Side 58 - Our curiosity is naturally prompted to inquire by what means the Christian faith obtained so remarkable a victory over the established religions of the earth. To this inquiry an obvious but satisfactory answer may be returned ; that it was owing to the convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and to the ruling providence of its great Author.
Side 86 - 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...
Side 81 - When the promise of eternal happiness was proposed to mankind, on condition of adopting the faith, and of observing the precepts of the gospel, it is no wonder that so advantageous an offer should have been accepted by great numbers of every religion, of every rank, and of every province in the Roman empire.
Side 136 - The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church. But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral or physical government of the world.
Side 227 - Turkish oppression, still exhibit a rich prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests ; and the Propontis has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store of the most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill, and almost without labour.
Side 210 - The edicts, which we have published to enforce the worship of the gods, having exposed many of the Christians to danger and distress, many having suffered death, and many more, who still persist in their impious folly, being left destitute of any public exercise of religion, we are disposed to extend to those unhappy men the effects of our wonted clemency. We permit them therefore freely to profess their private opinions, and to assemble in their conventicles without fear or molestation, provided...
Side 239 - Constantine, framed by his order, of gilt wood, and bearing in its right hand a small image of the genius of the place, was erected on a triumphal car. The guards, carrying white tapers and clothed in their richest apparel, accompanied the solemn procession as it moved through the Hippodrome. When it was opposite to the throne of the reigning emperor, he rose from his seat, and with grateful reverence adored the memory of his predecessor.
Side 223 - Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours into the harbour a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the...
Side 168 - But it is certain, and we may appeal to the grateful confessions of the first Christians, that the greatest part of those magistrates who exercised in the provinces the authority of the emperor, or of the senate, and to whose hands alone the jurisdiction of life and death was intrusted, behaved...
Side 231 - The buildings of the new city were executed by such artificers as the reign of Constantine could afford ; but they were decorated by the hands of the most celebrated masters of the age of Pericles and Alexander. To revive the genius of Phidias and Lysippus surpassed indeed the power of a Roman emperor...