 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 Seiten
...memento of human depravity. The exposition of, children was also a prevailing and stubborn vice in antiquity. It was sometimes prescribed, often permitted, almost always practised with impunity ; and even the dramatic poets, who appeal to the feeling heart, represent with indifference a popular... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 416 Seiten
...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...stubborn vice of antiquity : it was sometimes prescribed, ofteu permitted, almost always practised with impunity, by the nations who never entertained the Romans... | |
 | Christopher Johnson - 1813 - 168 Seiten
...weakly and deformed children of the Spartans. • , " The exposition of children was the pre" vailing and stubborn vice of antiquity : it was " sometimes prescribed, often permitted, almost al" ways practised with impunity, by the nations who " never entertained the Roman ideas of paternal... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 398 Seiten
...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...sometimes prescribed, often permitted, almost always practis ed with impunity, by the nations who never en tertained the Romans ideas of paternal power;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 462 Seiten
...for imputiiK 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...always practised with impunity, by the nations who nevei entertained the Roman ideas of paternal power ; and the dramatic poets, who appeal to the human... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 Seiten
...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...exposition of children was the prevailing and stubborn 'I- Quod latnmis magis quam patris jure rum interfecit, nam patria potestas in pietate debet non in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1830 - 442 Seiten
...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...prevailing and stubborn vice of antiquity; it was sometimes practised, often permitted, almost always practised with impunity, by the nations who never entertained... | |
 | Thomas Simpson, Alexander Simpson - 1843 - 458 Seiten
...passage in Gibbon, before the savages of the New World are pronounced a reproach to the human species : " The exposition of children was the prevailing and stubborn vice of antiquity. It was sometimes proscribed, often permitted, almost always practised with impunity by the nations who never entertained... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1847 - 542 Seiten
...for imputing the crime of murder to the falher, who strangles, or starves, or abandons his new-born infant; or exposes him in a public place to find the...prevailing and stubborn vice of antiquity : it was somelimes prescribed, often permitted, almost always practised with impunily, by the nations who never... | |
 | Lewis Glover Pray - 1847 - 288 Seiten
...burdensome, or when, from any other cause, they, were not thought worth preserving. Gibbon says, — " The exposition of children was the prevailing and stubborn vice of antiquity " ; and again he remarks, — " The Roman was stained with the blood of infants, till such murders... | |
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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... 
