The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 3John Murray, 1903 |
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... never provoked either to meet their tyrants in the field , or indignantly to withdraw themselves into some remote and sequestered corner of the globe.19 17 See the elegant description of Lactantius ( Divin . Institut . v . 8 ) , who is ...
... never provoked either to meet their tyrants in the field , or indignantly to withdraw themselves into some remote and sequestered corner of the globe.19 17 See the elegant description of Lactantius ( Divin . Institut . v . 8 ) , who is ...
Side 13
... never shown at the head of an army , till Constantine , above ten years afterwards , declared himself the enemy of Licinius and the deliverer of the church . See Cod . Theod . 1. vi . tit . xxv . Sozomen , 1. i . c . 2 [ c . 4 ] ...
... never shown at the head of an army , till Constantine , above ten years afterwards , declared himself the enemy of Licinius and the deliverer of the church . See Cod . Theod . 1. vi . tit . xxv . Sozomen , 1. i . c . 2 [ c . 4 ] ...
Side 21
... never be recovered . By the delay of their baptism they could venture freely to indulge their passions in the enjoyment of this world , while they still retained in their own hands the means of a sure and easy absolution.68 The sublime ...
... never be recovered . By the delay of their baptism they could venture freely to indulge their passions in the enjoyment of this world , while they still retained in their own hands the means of a sure and easy absolution.68 The sublime ...
Side 23
... never profaned by the worship of idols . 73 As the lower ranks of society are governed by imitation , the conversion of those who pos- sessed any eminence of birth , of power , or of riches , was soon followed by dependent multitudes.74 ...
... never profaned by the worship of idols . 73 As the lower ranks of society are governed by imitation , the conversion of those who pos- sessed any eminence of birth , of power , or of riches , was soon followed by dependent multitudes.74 ...
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... never been imposed on the free spirit of Greece and the spiritual Rome , was introduced and confirmed by the legal establish- and temporal ment of Christianity . The office of supreme pontiff , which , from the time of Numa to that of ...
... never been imposed on the free spirit of Greece and the spiritual Rome , was introduced and confirmed by the legal establish- and temporal ment of Christianity . The office of supreme pontiff , which , from the time of Numa to that of ...
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