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Side vii
... civil innovations . However these principles of composition may demand more than ordinary attention on the part of the reader , they can alone impress upon the memory the heal course , and the relative importance of the events . Whoever ...
... civil innovations . However these principles of composition may demand more than ordinary attention on the part of the reader , they can alone impress upon the memory the heal course , and the relative importance of the events . Whoever ...
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... CIVIL WARS AND VICTORY OF SEVE- RUS OVER HIS THREE RIVALS . RELAXATION OF DISCIPLINE . MAXIMS OF GOVERNMENT . NEW Proportion of the Military Force to the Number of the People , 124 The Prætorian Guards , ....... 124 .... Their ...
... CIVIL WARS AND VICTORY OF SEVE- RUS OVER HIS THREE RIVALS . RELAXATION OF DISCIPLINE . MAXIMS OF GOVERNMENT . NEW Proportion of the Military Force to the Number of the People , 124 The Prætorian Guards , ....... 124 .... Their ...
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... Civil Wars , ....... Arts of Severus , ... Towards Niger , .. Towards Albinus , .. Event of the Civil Wars , ........... ..... 138 138 139 140 141 Decided by one or two Battles ,. Siege of Byzantium , 141 142 Death of Niger and Albinus ...
... Civil Wars , ....... Arts of Severus , ... Towards Niger , .. Towards Albinus , .. Event of the Civil Wars , ........... ..... 138 138 139 140 141 Decided by one or two Battles ,. Siege of Byzantium , 141 142 Death of Niger and Albinus ...
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... CIVIL WARS AND SEDITIONS . — VIOLENT DEATHS OF MAXIMIN AND HIS SON , OF MAXIMUS AND BALBINUS , AND OF THE THREE GORDIANS . — USURPA- TION AND SECULAR GAMES OF PHILIP . The apparent Ridicule and solid Advantages of hereditary Suc ...
... CIVIL WARS AND SEDITIONS . — VIOLENT DEATHS OF MAXIMIN AND HIS SON , OF MAXIMUS AND BALBINUS , AND OF THE THREE GORDIANS . — USURPA- TION AND SECULAR GAMES OF PHILIP . The apparent Ridicule and solid Advantages of hereditary Suc ...
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... Civil Dissensions of Germany ,. 274 Fomented by the Policy of Rome , ..... 275 Transient Union against Marcus Antoninus , 276 Distinction of the German Tribe , .... .... 277 Numbers . ......... ..... 277 CHAPTER X. TAB EMPERORS DECIUS ...
... Civil Dissensions of Germany ,. 274 Fomented by the Policy of Rome , ..... 275 Transient Union against Marcus Antoninus , 276 Distinction of the German Tribe , .... .... 277 Numbers . ......... ..... 277 CHAPTER X. TAB EMPERORS DECIUS ...
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Side vi - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Side 94 - Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.
Side 37 - Viewing, with a smile of pity and indulgence, the various errors of the vulgar, they diligently practised the ceremonies of their fathers, devoutly frequented the temples of the gods, and sometimes condescending to act a part on the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes.
Side 205 - Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.
Side 94 - His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Side 504 - After a revolution of thirteen or fourteen centuries, that religion is still professed by the nations of Europe, the most distinguished portion of human kind in arts and learning as well as in arms. By the industry and zeal of the Europeans it has been widely diffused to the most distant shores of Asia and Africa; and by the means of their colonies has been firmly established from Canada to Chili, in a world unknown to the ancients.
Side 524 - The religion of the nations was not merely a speculative doctrine professed in the schools or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or of private life; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without, at the same time, renouncing the commerce of mankind, and all the offices and amusements of...
Side 532 - When the promise of eternal happiness was proposed to mankind on condition of adopting the faith and of observing the precepts of the gospel, it is no wonder that so advantageous an offer should have been accepted by great numbers of every religion, of every rank and of every province in the Roman empire.
Side 35 - The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and respective influence; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile.
Side 352 - Instead of the little passions which so frequently perplex a female reign, the steady administration of Zenobia was guided by the most judicious maxims of policy. If it was expedient to pardon, she could calm her resentment; if it was necessary to punish, she could impose silence on the voice of pity. Her strict economy was accused of avarice; yet on every proper occasion she appeared magnificent and liberal. The neighboring States of Arabia, Armenia, and Persia dreaded her enmity and solicited her...