The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Том 4Methuen & Company, 1901 |
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... perhaps her real grief , and to submit to the embraces of a presumptuous usurper , whom she suspected as the assassin of her deceased husband . These suspicions were soon justified by the indiscreet confession of Maximus himself ; and ...
... perhaps her real grief , and to submit to the embraces of a presumptuous usurper , whom she suspected as the assassin of her deceased husband . These suspicions were soon justified by the indiscreet confession of Maximus himself ; and ...
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... perhaps inflamed , by Count Ricimer , one of the principal commanders of the Barbarian troops , who formed the military defence of Italy . The daughter of Wallia , king of the Visigoths , was the mother of Ricimer ; but he was descended ...
... perhaps inflamed , by Count Ricimer , one of the principal commanders of the Barbarian troops , who formed the military defence of Italy . The daughter of Wallia , king of the Visigoths , was the mother of Ricimer ; but he was descended ...
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... perhaps inclination , to perpetrate . The tempest of war might strike some lofty turrets to the ground ; but the destruction which undermined the foundations of those massy fabrics was prosecuted , slowly and silently , during a period ...
... perhaps inclination , to perpetrate . The tempest of war might strike some lofty turrets to the ground ; but the destruction which undermined the foundations of those massy fabrics was prosecuted , slowly and silently , during a period ...
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... perhaps of the Tanais . Many thousands of the bravest subjects of Attila , the Gepida , the Ostrogoths , the Rugians , the Bur- gundians , the Suevi , the Alani , assembled in the plains of Liguria ; and their formidable strength was ...
... perhaps of the Tanais . Many thousands of the bravest subjects of Attila , the Gepida , the Ostrogoths , the Rugians , the Bur- gundians , the Suevi , the Alani , assembled in the plains of Liguria ; and their formidable strength was ...
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... perhaps more sincere ; but the inflexible Majorian had adopted the ancient maxim that Rome could not be safe as long as Carthage existed in a hostile state . The king of the Vandals distrusted the valour of his native subjects , who ...
... perhaps more sincere ; but the inflexible Majorian had adopted the ancient maxim that Rome could not be safe as long as Carthage existed in a hostile state . The king of the Vandals distrusted the valour of his native subjects , who ...
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Сторінка 201 - Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit, from the barbarism of the times, and the situation of the author.
Сторінка 461 - In the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no -fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found ; and the judges, poor .in the midst of riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.
Сторінка 269 - Athens; 1000 from the fall of the Roman empire in the West to the discovery of America; and the remaining 296 will almost complete three centuries of the modern state of Europe and mankind. I regret this chronology, so far preferable to our double and perplexed method of counting backwards and forwards the years before and after the Christian era.
Сторінка 161 - The rise of a city, which swelled into an empire, may deserve, as a singular prodigy, the reflection of a philosophic mind. But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay ; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest ; and, as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight.
Сторінка 169 - The merit of discovery has too often been stained with avarice, cruelty, and fanaticism ; and the intercourse of nations has produced the communication of disease and prejudice. A singular exception is due to the virtue of our own times and country. The five great voyages successively undertaken by the command of his present Majesty were inspired by the pure and generous love of science and of mankind.
Сторінка 162 - ... afterwards violated the majesty of the purple. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered them alike formidable to their sovereign and to the enemy; the vigor of the military government was relaxed and finally dissolved by the partial institutions of Constantine; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of barbarians.
Сторінка 5 - Rome and its inhabitants were delivered to the licentiousness of the Vandals and Moors, whose blind passions revenged the injuries of Carthage. The pillage lasted fourteen days and nights; and all that yet remained of public or private wealth, of sacred or profane treasure, was diligently transported to the vessels of Genseric.
Сторінка 418 - ... buckler in his left : with the one he struck dead the foremost of the assailants, with the other he received the weapons which every hand was ambitious to aim against his life. After a combat of many hours, his left arm was fatigued by the weight of twelve javelins which hung from his shield. Without moving from his ground or suspending his blows, the hero called aloud on his attendants for a fresh buckler, but in the moment while his side was uncovered, it was pierced by a mortal dart. He fell...
Сторінка 161 - And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters...
Сторінка 248 - A magnificent temple is a laudable monument of national taste and religion, and the enthusiast who entered the dome of St. Sophia might be tempted to suppose that it was the residence, or even the workmanship, of the Deity. Yet how dull is the artifice, how insignificant is the labour, if it be compared with the formation of the vilest insect that crawls upon the surface of the temple!