The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by Over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All Ages, Volum 6Henry Smith Williams Hooper & Jackson, Limited, 1907 |
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... citizens , a very sensible measure , though of benefit to a limited circle only , by which the best elements of provincial society became Roman citizens . Full rights of citizenship were also bestowed on the peregrine soldiers when they ...
... citizens , a very sensible measure , though of benefit to a limited circle only , by which the best elements of provincial society became Roman citizens . Full rights of citizenship were also bestowed on the peregrine soldiers when they ...
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... citizens in Apamea in Syria ; and numbers of his comrades must in like manner have been employed on this troublesome ... citizen class and the furtherance of agriculture in Italy . We should gladly dwell upon the further development of ...
... citizens in Apamea in Syria ; and numbers of his comrades must in like manner have been employed on this troublesome ... citizen class and the furtherance of agriculture in Italy . We should gladly dwell upon the further development of ...
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... citizens . But it is evident that they very skilfully con- trived to avoid an open rupture with the worship of the emperor no less than with the national religion of Rome ; for history has no record of Jewish martyrs who suffered death ...
... citizens . But it is evident that they very skilfully con- trived to avoid an open rupture with the worship of the emperor no less than with the national religion of Rome ; for history has no record of Jewish martyrs who suffered death ...
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... citizen- ship to the large - bodied and fertile - minded races of the north , removing thus a prominent barrier to racial intermingling , the result might have been some- thing quite different . We have noted again and again that it is ...
... citizen- ship to the large - bodied and fertile - minded races of the north , removing thus a prominent barrier to racial intermingling , the result might have been some- thing quite different . We have noted again and again that it is ...
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... citizens who had to be maintained by regular donations of provisions from the public storehouses and by chari- table gifts amounted to half a million , and yet this aid was but an inade- quate makeshift ; many of those disqualified to ...
... citizens who had to be maintained by regular donations of provisions from the public storehouses and by chari- table gifts amounted to half a million , and yet this aid was but an inade- quate makeshift ; many of those disqualified to ...
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Side 310 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom.
Side 668 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Side 670 - The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome to the Destruction of the Western Empire.
Side 558 - Your lives!" replied the haughty conqueror. They trembled and retired. Yet, before they retired, a short suspension of arms was granted, which allowed some time for a more temperate negotiation.
Side 454 - The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth, united in a single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantine. But as some decent mixture of prodigy and fable has, in every age, been supposed to reflect a becoming majesty on the origin of great...
Side 668 - ROMAN EMPIRE OF THE SECOND CENTURY, or the Age of the Antonines.
Side 568 - Whether fame, or conquest, or riches, were the object of Alaric, he pursued that object with an indefatigable ardour, which could neither be quelled by adversity, nor satiated by success. No sooner had he reached the extreme land of Italy, than he was attracted by the neighbouring prospect of a fair and peaceful island.
Side 564 - ... a messenger to inform the king of the treasure which he had discovered ; and received a peremptory order from Alaric, that all the consecrated plate and ornaments should be transported, without damage or delay, to the church of the apostle. From the extremity, perhaps, of the Quirinal hill, to the distant quarter of the Vatican, a numerous detachment of Goths, marching in order of battle through the principal streets, protected, with glittering arms, the long train of their devout companions,...
Side 456 - The magistrates of the most distant provinces were therefore directed to institute schools, to appoint professors, and, by the hopes of rewards and privileges, to engage in the study and practice of architecture a sufficient number of ingenious youths who had received a liberal...
Side 668 - HISTORY OF ROMAN LITERATURE. From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius. With Chronological Tables, etc., for the use of Students.