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... persons whom Galerius promoted to the rank of Cæsar , were much better suited to serve the views of his ambition ; 4 Lactantius de Mort . Persecutor . c . 18. Were the particulars of this conference more consistent with truth and ...
... persons whom Galerius promoted to the rank of Cæsar , were much better suited to serve the views of his ambition ; 4 Lactantius de Mort . Persecutor . c . 18. Were the particulars of this conference more consistent with truth and ...
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... persons . A very minute survey appears to have been taken of their real estates ; and wherever there was the slightest suspi- cion of concealment , torture was very freely employ- ed to obtain a sincere declaration of their personal ...
... persons . A very minute survey appears to have been taken of their real estates ; and wherever there was the slightest suspi- cion of concealment , torture was very freely employ- ed to obtain a sincere declaration of their personal ...
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... diu , " may signify , either that he contrived , or that he oppos- ed , the conspiracy . See Zosimus , 1. ii . p . 79. and Lactantius de M. P. c . 26 . XIV . Maximian , who conducted the siege in person 12 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
... diu , " may signify , either that he contrived , or that he oppos- ed , the conspiracy . See Zosimus , 1. ii . p . 79. and Lactantius de M. P. c . 26 . XIV . Maximian , who conducted the siege in person 12 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
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Edward Gibbon. XIV . Maximian , who conducted the siege in person , was CHAP . soon convinced that he might waste his time and his army in the fruitless enterprise , and that he had no- thing to hope either from force or famine . With au ...
Edward Gibbon. XIV . Maximian , who conducted the siege in person , was CHAP . soon convinced that he might waste his time and his army in the fruitless enterprise , and that he had no- thing to hope either from force or famine . With au ...
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... person of Max- His death . imian . A secret but irrevocable sentence of death was A. D. 310. pronounced against the usurper , he obtained only the same favour which he had indulged to Severus , and it was published to the world , that ...
... person of Max- His death . imian . A secret but irrevocable sentence of death was A. D. 310. pronounced against the usurper , he obtained only the same favour which he had indulged to Severus , and it was published to the world , that ...
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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...