The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireJ. M'Gowan, 1825 |
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Side 37
... senate . They could not be impelled by ambition or avarice , as the temporal and ecclesiastical powers were united in the same hands . The pontiffs were chosen among the most illustrious of the senators ; and the office of supreme ...
... senate . They could not be impelled by ambition or avarice , as the temporal and ecclesiastical powers were united in the same hands . The pontiffs were chosen among the most illustrious of the senators ; and the office of supreme ...
Side 38
... senate , using the common privilege , sometimes interposed to check this inundation of foreign rites . The Egyptian superstition , of all the most contemptible and abject , was frequently prohibited ; the temples of Serapis and Isis ...
... senate , using the common privilege , sometimes interposed to check this inundation of foreign rites . The Egyptian superstition , of all the most contemptible and abject , was frequently prohibited ; the temples of Serapis and Isis ...
Side 41
... senate . The estates of the Italians were exempt from taxes ; their persons from the arbitrary jurisdiction of ... senators were obliged to have one third of their own landed property in Italy . See Plin . l . 6. ep . 19. The ...
... senate . The estates of the Italians were exempt from taxes ; their persons from the arbitrary jurisdiction of ... senators were obliged to have one third of their own landed property in Italy . See Plin . l . 6. ep . 19. The ...
Side 42
... senate to dissolve those dangerous confederacies , which taught mankind , that as the Roman arms prevailed by division , they might be resisted by union . Those princes , whom the ostentation of gratitude or generosity permitted for ...
... senate to dissolve those dangerous confederacies , which taught mankind , that as the Roman arms prevailed by division , they might be resisted by union . Those princes , whom the ostentation of gratitude or generosity permitted for ...
Side 49
... senate ; nor were the traces of a servile origin allowed to be completely obliterated till the third or fourth ... senator . The ministers of Numbers . k f Spanheim , Orbis Roman . I. 1. c . 16. p . 124 , & c . g Seneca de Clementiâ , l ...
... senate ; nor were the traces of a servile origin allowed to be completely obliterated till the third or fourth ... senator . The ministers of Numbers . k f Spanheim , Orbis Roman . I. 1. c . 16. p . 124 , & c . g Seneca de Clementiâ , l ...
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