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... favour of the Romans accompanied the rifing fortunes of Julian , his discontented mind was prepared to receive the fubtle poifon of those artful fycophants , who coloured their mifchiev- ous designs with the fairest appearances of truth ...
... favour of the Romans accompanied the rifing fortunes of Julian , his discontented mind was prepared to receive the fubtle poifon of those artful fycophants , who coloured their mifchiev- ous designs with the fairest appearances of truth ...
Side 43
... favour , fuddenly enriched these haughty menials . They abused their fortune , without confidering their past , or their future , condition ; and their rapine and venality could be equalled only by the ex- travagance of their ...
... favour , fuddenly enriched these haughty menials . They abused their fortune , without confidering their past , or their future , condition ; and their rapine and venality could be equalled only by the ex- travagance of their ...
Side 47
... favour of Conftantius , expiated , by an ignominious death , the infolence , the corrup- tion , and cruelty of his fervile reign . The exe- cutions of Paul and Apodemius ( the former of whom was burnt alive ) were accepted as an in ...
... favour of Conftantius , expiated , by an ignominious death , the infolence , the corrup- tion , and cruelty of his fervile reign . The exe- cutions of Paul and Apodemius ( the former of whom was burnt alive ) were accepted as an in ...
Side 73
... favour , and to deprecate the wrath , of the powers of heaven ; whofe pride is gratified by the devotion of man- kind ; and whofe groffer parts may be fuppofed to derive fome nourishment from the fumes of facrifice 20. The inferior gods ...
... favour , and to deprecate the wrath , of the powers of heaven ; whofe pride is gratified by the devotion of man- kind ; and whofe groffer parts may be fuppofed to derive fome nourishment from the fumes of facrifice 20. The inferior gods ...
Side 74
... the only circumstance in their favour is , that they are of a lefs gloomy complexion . Inftead of devils with horns XXIII . Grecian myfteries fhould have been fupported CHAP . 74 THE DECLINE AND FALL Fanaticism of the Philofophers.
... the only circumstance in their favour is , that they are of a lefs gloomy complexion . Inftead of devils with horns XXIII . Grecian myfteries fhould have been fupported CHAP . 74 THE DECLINE AND FALL Fanaticism of the Philofophers.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1853 |
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