The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith, Volum 21854 |
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... writers of the age of Con- stantine , who was the great - grandson of Crispus , the elder brother of Claudius . The voice of flattery was soon taught to repeat that the 14 According to Zonaras ( 1. xii . [ c . 26 ] p . 636 [ ed . Par ...
... writers of the age of Con- stantine , who was the great - grandson of Crispus , the elder brother of Claudius . The voice of flattery was soon taught to repeat that the 14 According to Zonaras ( 1. xii . [ c . 26 ] p . 636 [ ed . Par ...
Side 9
... writers call him Quin- tillus , not Quintilius . - S . b Such is the narrative of the greater part of the older historians ; but the num- ber and the variety of his medals seem to require more time , and give probability to the report ...
... writers call him Quin- tillus , not Quintilius . - S . b Such is the narrative of the greater part of the older historians ; but the num- ber and the variety of his medals seem to require more time , and give probability to the report ...
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... writer extremely partial to Aurelian , the immediate dissolution of the empire was apprehended.35 The crafty barbarians , who had lined the woods , suddenly attacked the legions in the dusk of the evening , and , it is most probable ...
... writer extremely partial to Aurelian , the immediate dissolution of the empire was apprehended.35 The crafty barbarians , who had lined the woods , suddenly attacked the legions in the dusk of the evening , and , it is most probable ...
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... writers , only the two last ( but with strong probability ) place the fall of Tetricus before that of Zenobia . M. de Boze ( in the Academy of Inscriptions , tom . xxx . ) does not wish , and Tillemont ( tom . iii . p . 1189 ) does not ...
... writers , only the two last ( but with strong probability ) place the fall of Tetricus before that of Zenobia . M. de Boze ( in the Academy of Inscriptions , tom . xxx . ) does not wish , and Tillemont ( tom . iii . p . 1189 ) does not ...
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... writers Zenobia was a Jewess . ( Jost , Geschichte der Israel , iv . p . 166. Hist . of Jews , iii . p . 175.-M. According to Zosimus , Odenathus was of a noble family in Palmyra ; and , accord- ing to Procopius [ Bell . Pers . 1. ii ...
... writers Zenobia was a Jewess . ( Jost , Geschichte der Israel , iv . p . 166. Hist . of Jews , iii . p . 175.-M. According to Zosimus , Odenathus was of a noble family in Palmyra ; and , accord- ing to Procopius [ Bell . Pers . 1. ii ...
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Side 151 - While that great °nq«fcybody was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour from opposition, and finally erected the triumphant banner of the Cross on the ruins of the Capitol.
Side 19 - Modern Europe has produced several illustrious women who have sustained with glory the weight of empire ; nor is our own age destitute of such distinguished characters. But, if we except the doubtful achievements of Semiramis, Zenobia is perhaps the only female...
Side 177 - How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs, so many 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 flames with their deluded scholars; so many celebrated poets trembling before the tribunal, not of Minos, but of Christ; so many tragedians, more tuneful in the expression...
Side 60 - Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth the immense multitude; and the entrances, passages, and staircases were contrived with such exquisite skill, that each person, whether of the senatorial, the equestrian, or the plebeian order, arrived at his destined place without trouble or confusion.
Side 290 - Between the Bosphorus and the Hellespont, the shores of Europe and Asia receding on either side enclose the Sea of Marmara, which was known to the ancients by the denomination of Propontis. The navigation from the issue of the Bosphorus to the entrance of the Hellespont is about one hundred and twenty miles. Those who steer their westward course through the middle of the Propontis may at once descry the high lands of Thrace and Bithynia, and never lose sight of the lofty summit of Mount Olympus,...
Side 151 - The great law of impartiality too often obliges us to reveal the imperfections of the uninspired teachers and believers of the gospel ; and to a careless observer their faults may seem to cast a shade on the faith which they professed.
Side 218 - But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world, to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses ? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and of their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. 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...
Side 219 - It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena of nature — earthquakes, meteors, comets, and eclipses — which his indefatigable curiosity could collect. Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon to which the mortal . eye has been witness since the creation of...
Side 173 - It was universally believed, that the end of the world, and the kingdom of heaven, were at hand.* The near approach of this wonderful event had been predicted by the apostles ; the tradition of it was preserved by their earliest disciples, and those who understood in their literal sense the discourses of Christ himself, were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the Son of Man in the clouds, before that generation was totally extinguished...
Side 281 - The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion. Such an acknowledgment will naturally excite a suspicion that a writer who has so openly violated one of the fundamental laws of history has not paid a very strict regard to the...