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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... thousand of my soldiers " have been slain in the contest , of those troops whose ordinary " station is in Dacia and the camps along the Danube . " 88 Other writers , who confirm the same fact , add likewise , that it happened soon after ...
... thousand of my soldiers " have been slain in the contest , of those troops whose ordinary " station is in Dacia and the camps along the Danube . " 88 Other writers , who confirm the same fact , add likewise , that it happened soon after ...
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... thousand mercenaries , and the experience of frequent revolutions . Yet , notwithstanding all these temptations , the discipline and memory of Aurelian still restrained the seditious temper of the troops , as well as the fatal ambition ...
... thousand mercenaries , and the experience of frequent revolutions . Yet , notwithstanding all these temptations , the discipline and memory of Aurelian still restrained the seditious temper of the troops , as well as the fatal ambition ...
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... thousand Roman pounds of silver , each of the value of three pounds sterling . But in the age of Tacitus the coin had lost much of its weight and purity . 9 After his accession he gave orders that ten copies of the historian should be ...
... thousand Roman pounds of silver , each of the value of three pounds sterling . But in the age of Tacitus the coin had lost much of its weight and purity . 9 After his accession he gave orders that ten copies of the historian should be ...
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... thousand years , a monarch of the race of Tacitus should arise , the protector of the senate , the restorer of Rome , and the conqueror of the whole earth.22 and eleva- emperor The peasants of Illyricum , who had already given Claudius ...
... thousand years , a monarch of the race of Tacitus should arise , the protector of the senate , the restorer of Rome , and the conqueror of the whole earth.22 and eleva- emperor The peasants of Illyricum , who had already given Claudius ...
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... thousand of the invaders ; a work of labour to the Romans , and of expense to the emperor , who gave a piece of gold for the head of every barbarian.39 But as the fame of warriors is built on the destruction of human kind , we may ...
... thousand of the invaders ; a work of labour to the Romans , and of expense to the emperor , who gave a piece of gold for the head of every barbarian.39 But as the fame of warriors is built on the destruction of human kind , we may ...
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Populære avsnitt
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...