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... mind , the defect of his modest silence has been liberally supplied by the ingenuity of succeeding writers ; who ... minds of the specta- tors . On foot , with a lance in his hand , the emperor himself led the solemn procession ; and ...
... mind , the defect of his modest silence has been liberally supplied by the ingenuity of succeeding writers ; who ... minds of the specta- tors . On foot , with a lance in his hand , the emperor himself led the solemn procession ; and ...
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... mind was depressed by civil and religious slavery , that we should seek for the souls of Homer and of Demosthenes . During the siege of Byzantium , the conqueror had pitched his tent on the commanding eminence of the second hill . To ...
... mind was depressed by civil and religious slavery , that we should seek for the souls of Homer and of Demosthenes . During the siege of Byzantium , the conqueror had pitched his tent on the commanding eminence of the second hill . To ...
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... mind were contracted by the irreconcil- able separation of talents as well as of professions . The accomplished citizens of the Greek and Roman republics , whose characters could adapt themselves to the bar , the sen- ate , the camp ...
... mind were contracted by the irreconcil- able separation of talents as well as of professions . The accomplished citizens of the Greek and Roman republics , whose characters could adapt themselves to the bar , the sen- ate , the camp ...
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... mind , who will be at once surprised by the equality and by the enormity of the capitation . An attempt to explain them may perhaps reflect some light on the interesting subject of the finances of the declining empire . I. It is obvious ...
... mind , who will be at once surprised by the equality and by the enormity of the capitation . An attempt to explain them may perhaps reflect some light on the interesting subject of the finances of the declining empire . I. It is obvious ...
Side 82
... mind of Constantine had been enriched by nature with her choicest endowments . His staturewas lofty , his countenance majestic , his deportment graceful ; his strength and activity were displayed in every manly exercise , and from his ...
... mind of Constantine had been enriched by nature with her choicest endowments . His staturewas lofty , his countenance majestic , his deportment graceful ; his strength and activity were displayed in every manly exercise , and from his ...
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Side 562 - The numbers, the strength, the rapid motions, and the implacable cruelty of the Huns were felt, and dreaded, and magnified by the astonished Goths, who beheld their fields and villages consumed with flames and deluged with indiscriminate slaughter.
Side 51 - The noble art, which had once been preserved as the sacred inheritance of the patricians, was fallen into the hands of freedmen and plebeians, who, with cunning rather than with skill, exercised a sordid and pernicious trade. Some of them procured admittance into families for the purpose of fomenting differences, of encouraging suits, and of preparing a harvest of gain for themselves or their brethren. Others, recluse in their chambers, maintained the dignity of legal professors, by furnishing a...
Side 352 - ... system of religion and philosophy. The lascivious form of a naked Venus was tortured into the discovery of some moral precept, or some physical truth ; and the castration of Atys explained the revolution of the sun between the tropics, or the separation of the human soul from vice and error.18 The theological system of Julian appears to have contained the sublime and important principles of natural religion.
Side 21 - ... city commanded, from her seven hills, the opposite shores of Europe and Asia ; the climate was healthy and temperate, the soil fertile, the harbour secure and capacious ; and the approach on the side of the continent was of small extent and easy defence. The Bosphorus and the Hellespont may be considered as the two gates of Constantinople ; and the prince who possessed those important passages could always shut them against a naval enemy and open them to the fleets of commerce.
Side 23 - On foot, with a lance in his hand, the emperor himself led the solemn procession, and directed the line which was traced as the boundary of the destined capital ; till the growing circumference was observed with astonishment by the assistants, who at length ventured to observe that he had already exceeded the most ample measure of a great city. " I shall still advance," replied Constantine, "till he, the invisible guide, who marches before me, thinks proper to stop.
Side 389 - From this obscure and servile origin he raised himself by the talents of a parasite; and the patrons whom he assiduously flattered procured for their worthless dependent a lucrative commission, or contract, to supply the army with bacon. His employment was mean; he rendered it infamous. He accumulated wealth by the basest arts of fraud and corruption; but his malversations were so notorious, that George was compelled to escape from the pursuits of justice. After this disgrace, in which he appears...
Side 82 - ... had been enriched by nature with her choicest endowments. His stature was lofty, his countenance majestic, his deportment graceful ; his strength and activity were displayed in every manly exercise, and from his earliest youth, to a very advanced season of life, he preserved the vigour of his constitution by a strict adherence to the domestic virtues of chastity and temperance.
Side 17 - ... 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 harbour allows goods to be landed on the quays without the assistance of boats; and it has been observed that in many places the largest vessels may rest their prows against the houses, while their sterns are floating in the water.
Side 21 - Bithynia, which languish under the weight of 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 labor.
Side 321 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics.