 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 sider
...disposition of others might occasionally be stimulated by motives of avarice or of personal resentment." But it is certain, and we may appeal to the grateful confessions...intrusted, behaved like men of polished manners and liberal education, who respected the rules of justice, and who were conversant with the precepts of philosophy.... | |
 | E. P. Thompson - 1994 - 284 sider
...zeal which filled their own breasts against the heretics or idolators of their own times'. But . . .the greatest part of those magistrates who exercised in the provinces the authority of the emperor . . . and to whose hands alone the jurisdiction of life and death was intrusted, behaved like men of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 sider
...disposition of others might occasionally be stimulated by motives of avarice or of personal resentment.66 But it is certain, and we may appeal to the grateful confessions...hands alone the jurisdiction of life and death was entrusted, behaved like men of polished manners and liberal educations, who respected the rules of... | |
 | Abulḥasan ʻAlī Nadvī - 2005 - 141 sider
...of Hadrian or even under his orders. In the extensive dominions of the Roman Empire, any magistrate who exercised in the provinces the authority of the...whose hands alone the jurisdiction of life and death of the subjects was entrusted, could have behaved as a remorseless tyrant. It is not improbable that... | |
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But it is certain, and we may appeal to the grateful confessions of the first Christians, that the greatest part of those magistrates who exercised in the provinces the authority of the emperor, or of the senate, and to whose hands alone the jurisdiction... 
