Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, repr. with the omission of all passages of an irreligious or immoral tendency, by T. Bowdler, Band 31826 |
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... bishop , the senator , and the virgin , laden with the spoils of their houses and altars . The timid and selfish policy of the court of Ravenna might recal the Palatine legions for the protection of Italy ; the remains of the stationary ...
... bishop , the senator , and the virgin , laden with the spoils of their houses and altars . The timid and selfish policy of the court of Ravenna might recal the Palatine legions for the protection of Italy ; the remains of the stationary ...
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... bishop was satisfied by a solemn oath , that the Imperial mandate only directed them to secure the person of Stilicho : but , as soon as the unfortunate minister had been tempted beyond the holy threshold , he produced the warrant for ...
... bishop was satisfied by a solemn oath , that the Imperial mandate only directed them to secure the person of Stilicho : but , as soon as the unfortunate minister had been tempted beyond the holy threshold , he produced the warrant for ...
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... bishop of the city , was guarded from the dangers of the road by a detachment of Gothic soldiers . Change and succession of Olympius might have continued to insult the just ministers . resentment of a people , who loudly accused him as ...
... bishop of the city , was guarded from the dangers of the road by a detachment of Gothic soldiers . Change and succession of Olympius might have continued to insult the just ministers . resentment of a people , who loudly accused him as ...
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... bishops of the towns of Italy to reiterate his offers of peace , and to conjure the emperor , that he would save the city and its inhabitants from hostile fire , and the sword of the Barbarians . These impending calami- ties were ...
... bishops of the towns of Italy to reiterate his offers of peace , and to conjure the emperor , that he would save the city and its inhabitants from hostile fire , and the sword of the Barbarians . These impending calami- ties were ...
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... bishop . The first days of the reign of Attalus were fair and prosperous . An officer of confidence was sent with an inconsiderable body of troops to secure the obedience of Africa ; the greatest part of Italy submitted to the terror of ...
... bishop . The first days of the reign of Attalus were fair and prosperous . An officer of confidence was sent with an inconsiderable body of troops to secure the obedience of Africa ; the greatest part of Italy submitted to the terror of ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 334 - 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...
Seite 375 - While Boethius, oppressed with fetters, expected each moment the sentence or the stroke of death, he composed, in the tower of Pavia, the Consolation of 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.
Seite 342 - Since the first discovery of the arts, war, commerce, and religious zeal have diffused, among the savages of the Old and New World, . these inestimable gifts : they have been successively propagated ; they can never be lost. We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.
Seite 401 - Caesar! to fly, you have treasures; behold the sea, you have ships; but tremble lest the desire of life should expose you to wretched exile and ignominious death. For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.
Seite 91 - Romans, and that the streets of the city were filled with dead bodies, which remained without burial during the general consternation. The despair of the citizens was sometimes converted into fury ; and whenever the barbarians were provoked by opposition they extended the promiscuous massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the helpless. The private revenge of forty thousand slaves was exercised without pity or remorse; and the ignominious lashes which they had formerly received were washed away...
Seite 302 - disclaim the necessity, or even the wish, of continuing any longer the imperial succession in Italy, since, in their opinion, the majesty of a sole monarch is sufficient to pervade and protect, at the same time, both the East and the West." In their own name, and in the name of the people, they consent that the seat of universal empire shall be transferred from Rome to Constantinople...
Seite 339 - The abuses of tyranny are restrained by the mutual influence of fear and shame; republics have acquired order and stability; monarchies have imbibed the principles of freedom, or at least of moderation; and some sense of honour and justice is introduced into the most defective constitutions by the general manners of the times. In peace, the progress of knowledge and industry is accelerated by the emulation of so many active rivals; in war, the European forces are exercised by temperate and undecisive...
Seite 71 - The impatient crowd rushed at the dawn of day to secure their places, and there were many who passed a sleepless and anxious night in the adjacent porticos. From the morning to the evening, careless of the sun, or of the rain, the spectators, who sometimes amounted to the number of four hundred thousand, remained in eager attention; their eyes fixed on the horses and charioteers, their minds agitated with hope and fear, for the success of the colors which they espoused: and the happiness of Rome...
Seite 340 - The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history, or tradition, of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage, naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language.
Seite 33 - German yoke ; and the consuming flames of war spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps, and the Pyrenees, was delivered to the barbarians...