The Historians' History of the World: The early Roman empireHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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Side 6
... senate . The empire was to be elec- tive , as the old Roman monarchy had been ; the nomination to the throne was to proceed from the senate , but on the other hand the supreme command of the army and fleet was vested in the emperor 6 ...
... senate . The empire was to be elec- tive , as the old Roman monarchy had been ; the nomination to the throne was to proceed from the senate , but on the other hand the supreme command of the army and fleet was vested in the emperor 6 ...
Side 7
... senate insured it a fair share in the government only so long as the sovereign chose to respect them . The reign of terror under his successors sufficed to set in the most glaring light the absolute impotence of the senate when opposed ...
... senate insured it a fair share in the government only so long as the sovereign chose to respect them . The reign of terror under his successors sufficed to set in the most glaring light the absolute impotence of the senate when opposed ...
Side 48
... senate by the victorious general himself with the subsidiary aid of a commission of ten senators appointed by the senate for this object . The fundamental law of the province thus established ( lex provinciæ ) determined the character ...
... senate by the victorious general himself with the subsidiary aid of a commission of ten senators appointed by the senate for this object . The fundamental law of the province thus established ( lex provinciæ ) determined the character ...
Side 79
... senate ordering the doors of Janus to be shut , in that the senate had rarely gone to such lengths . Two centuries had passed since the last occasion in which the temple of Janus was closed . When the First Punic War with all its losses ...
... senate ordering the doors of Janus to be shut , in that the senate had rarely gone to such lengths . Two centuries had passed since the last occasion in which the temple of Janus was closed . When the First Punic War with all its losses ...
Side 81
... senate , to receive it again , but only for a definite number of years ; and even in the case of Napoleon III , it was a polite official fiction that his power had been delegated to him by the nation in the first year of his reign and ...
... senate , to receive it again , but only for a definite number of years ; and even in the case of Napoleon III , it was a polite official fiction that his power had been delegated to him by the nation in the first year of his reign and ...
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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 651 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Side 322 - With this view," continues Tacitus,fc " he inflicted the most exquisite tortures on those men who, under the vulgar appellation of Christians, were already branded with deserved infamy. They derived their name and origin from Christ, who, in the reign of Tiberius, had suffered death by the sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate.
Side 651 - The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome to the Destruction of the Western Empire.
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 552 - A dark suspicion was entertained that some desperate wretches fed on the bodies of their fellow-creatures, whom they had secretly murdered; and even mothers — such was the horrid conflict of the two most powerful instincts implanted by nature in the human breast — even mothers are said to have tasted the flesh of their slaughtered infants!
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 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 651 - ... and is one of the most important sources for the history of the Emperor Julian.