The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 3John Murray, 1903 |
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Side vi
... Laws and Government 246 Valentinian maintains the re- ligious Toleration State of Africa 365-378 . IV . The EAST . Persian War 384. The Treaty of Peace Adventures of Para , King of . 276 The 277 · • 28C • Armenia 280 V. The DANUBE ...
... Laws and Government 246 Valentinian maintains the re- ligious Toleration State of Africa 365-378 . IV . The EAST . Persian War 384. The Treaty of Peace Adventures of Para , King of . 276 The 277 · • 28C • Armenia 280 V. The DANUBE ...
Side 4
... laws , of a prince who wisely left to the gods the care of vindicating their own honour . If we may credit the assertion of Constantine himself , he had been an indignant spectator of the savage cruelties which were inflicted , by the ...
... laws , of a prince who wisely left to the gods the care of vindicating their own honour . If we may credit the assertion of Constantine himself , he had been an indignant spectator of the savage cruelties which were inflicted , by the ...
Side 6
... laws is imper- fect and precarious . They seldom inspire virtue , they cannot always restrain vice . Their power is insufficient to prohibit all that they condemn , nor can they always punish the actions which they prohibit . The ...
... laws is imper- fect and precarious . They seldom inspire virtue , they cannot always restrain vice . Their power is insufficient to prohibit all that they condemn , nor can they always punish the actions which they prohibit . The ...
Side 23
... law of Constantine which gave freedom to all the slaves who should embrace Christianity . The emperor did indeed publish a law which restrained the Jews from circumcising , perhaps from keeping , any Christian slaves ( see Euseb . in ...
... law of Constantine which gave freedom to all the slaves who should embrace Christianity . The emperor did indeed publish a law which restrained the Jews from circumcising , perhaps from keeping , any Christian slaves ( see Euseb . in ...
Side 26
... laws , and that the care of religion was the right as well as duty of the civil magistrate . Constantine and his successors could not easily persuade themselves that they had forfeited , by their conversion , any branch of the Imperial ...
... laws , and that the care of religion was the right as well as duty of the civil magistrate . Constantine and his successors could not easily persuade themselves that they had forfeited , by their conversion , any branch of the Imperial ...
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