The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith, Band 51854 |
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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 29 - 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 87 - Sicily ; and these studies became the patrimony of a city whose inhabitants, about thirty thousand males, condensed, within the period of a single life, the genius of ages and millions. Our sense of the dignity of human nature is exalted by the simple recollection that Isocrates143 was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted, perhaps with the historian Thucydides, at the first representations of the Oedipus of Sophocles and the Iphigenia of Euripides...
Seite 251 - 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 389 - Euphrates to the Thracian Bosphorus; Chalcedon surrendered after a long siege, and a Persian camp was maintained above ten years in the presence of Constantinople. The sea-coast of Pontus, the city of Ancyra, and the isle of Rhodes are enumerated among the last conquests of the Great King ; and if Chosroes had possessed any maritime power, his boundless ambition would have spread slavery and desolation over the provinces of Europe.
Seite 6 - Although your servant is maintained in affluence by your liberality, graciously listen to the wishes of my heart! Italy, the inheritance of your predecessors, and Rome, itself the head and mistress of the world, now fluctuate under the violence and oppression of Odoacer the mercenary. Direct me, with my national troops, to march against the tyrant. If I fall, you will be relieved from an expensive and troublesome friend; if, with the Divine permission, I succeed, 1 shall govern in your name, and...
Seite 289 - The same protection was due to every period of existence : and reason must applaud the humanity of Paulus, for imputing the crime of murder to the father, who strangles, or starves, or abandons his new-born infant ; or exposes him in a public place to find the mercy which he himself had denied. But the exposition of children...
Seite 137 - Paros and decorated by the statues of gods and heroes, and the lover of the arts must read with a sigh that the works of Praxiteles or Lysippus were torn from their lofty pedestals and hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers...
Seite 353 - ... and dominion. A vague tradition was embraced, that two Jewish teachers, a tent-maker and a fisherman, had formerly been executed in the circus of Nero, and at the end of five hundred years, their genuine or fictitious relics were adored as the Palladium of Christian Rome.