The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, Band 5J. Murray, 1881 |
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... nature , still sustained a siege of almost three years , and the daring sallies of Odoacer carried slaughter and dismay into the Gothic camp . At length , destitute of provisions and hopeless of relief , that unfortunate monarch yielded ...
... nature , still sustained a siege of almost three years , and the daring sallies of Odoacer carried slaughter and dismay into the Gothic camp . At length , destitute of provisions and hopeless of relief , that unfortunate monarch yielded ...
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... nature of things the power of sove- reigns is confined to external government ; that they have no right of punishment but over those who disturb the public peace , of which they are the guardians ; that the most dangerous heresy is that ...
... nature of things the power of sove- reigns is confined to external government ; that they have no right of punishment but over those who disturb the public peace , of which they are the guardians ; that the most dangerous heresy is that ...
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... nature and the imperfections of society ; and the mildest form of a Gothic kingdom , even the weight of allegiance and gratitude , must be insupportable to the free spirit of a Roman patriot . But the favour and fidelity of Boethius ...
... nature and the imperfections of society ; and the mildest form of a Gothic kingdom , even the weight of allegiance and gratitude , must be insupportable to the free spirit of a Roman patriot . But the favour and fidelity of Boethius ...
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... nature . Yet the sense of misfortune may be diverted by the labour of thought ; and the sage who could artfully combine in the same work the various riches of philosophy , poetry , and elo- quence , must already have possessed the ...
... nature . Yet the sense of misfortune may be diverted by the labour of thought ; and the sage who could artfully combine in the same work the various riches of philosophy , poetry , and elo- quence , must already have possessed the ...
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... Nature ; 26 but her murmurs , her pleasures , and her arts , must be veiled in the obscurity of a learned language . After reigning for some time the delight and contempt of the capital , she condescended to accompany Ecebolus , a ...
... Nature ; 26 but her murmurs , her pleasures , and her arts , must be veiled in the obscurity of a learned language . After reigning for some time the delight and contempt of the capital , she condescended to accompany Ecebolus , a ...
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Seite 310 - They approve the inhuman and unequal principle of retaliation; and the forfeit of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a limb for a limb, is rigorously exacted, unless the offender can redeem his pardon by a fine of three hundred pounds of copper.
Seite 25 - 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 251 - The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDECTS, and the INSTITUTES ; the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transfused into the domestic institutions of Europe, and the laws of Justinian still command the respect or obedience of independent nations.
Seite 284 - But in the eye of the law all Roman citizens were equal, and all subjects of the empire were citizens of Rome. That inestimable character was degraded to an obsolete and empty name. The voice of a Roman could no longer enact his laws or create the annual ministers of his...
Seite 402 - Eastward of the Tigris, at the end of the bridge of Mosul, the great Nineveh had formerly been erected ; the city, and even the ruins of the city, had long since disappeared : the vacant space afforded a spacious field for the operations of the two armies.
Seite 247 - In a damp, hot, stagnating air, this African fever is generated from the putrefaction of animal substances, and especially from the swarms of locusts, not less destructive to mankind in their death than in their lives.
Seite 277 - Institutes were declared to be the legitimate system of civil jurisprudence ; they alone were admitted in the tribunals, and they alone were taught in the academies, of Rome, Constantinople, and Berytus. Justinian addressed to the senate and provinces his eternal oracles: and his pride, under the mask of piety, ascribed the consummation of this great design to the support and inspiration of the Deity.
Seite 72 - From Belgrade to the Euxine, from the conflux of the Save to the mouth of the Danube, a chain of above fourscore fortified places was extended along the banks of the great river. Single watch-towers were changed into spacious citadels ; vacant walls, which the engineers contracted or enlarged according to the nature of the ground, were filled with colonies or garrisons ; a strong fortress defended the ruins of Trajan's bridge, and several military stations affected to spread beyond the Danube the...
Seite 22 - Virgil is now extant, corrected by the hand of a consul; and the professors of grammar, rhetoric, and jurisprudence were maintained in their privileges and pensions by the liberality of the Goths. But the erudition of the Latin language was insufficient to satiate his ardent curiosity; and Boethius is said to have employed eighteen laborious years in the schools of Athens, which were supported by the zeal, the learning, and the diligence of Proclus and his disciples.
Seite 240 - At length his innocence was acknowledged ; his freedom and honours were restored ; and death, which might be hastened by resentment and grief, removed him from the world about eight months after his deliverance. The name of Belisarius can never die; but, instead of the funeral, the monuments, the statues, so justly due to his memory, I only read that his treasures, the spoils of the Goths and Vandals, were immediately confiscated by the emperor.