The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, المجلد 4Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1875 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Africa Agathias Alboin ambassadors Anastasius ancient Anecdot Antonina Arian arms army avarice Avars Barbarians Baronius Belisarius Bibliot bishops Boethius Byzantine Cæsars camp capital Carthage Cassiodorus Chosroes Christian Chron church civil command conqueror conquest Constantine Constantinople danger Danube death disgrace East edict edit emperor empire enemy Ennodius Evagrius factions faith father fortune gates Gelimer Gepida Gibbon gold Gothic Goths Greek guards Heraclius Heruli Hist historian honor horses hundred Italian Italy John Malala justice Justinian king labor Latin laws Lombards ment merit military monarch monk Muratori Narses nation native Nestorian Nestorius Nushirvan Odoacer palace Pandects patriarch peace perhaps Persian præfect Prætorian prince Procopius provinces Ravenna reign restored revenge Roman Rome royal senate Sicily siege slaves soldiers soon sovereign spirit subjects success synod Theodoric Theophanes thousand throne tion Totila Tribonian troops tyrant valor Vandals victory viii virtue Vitiges καὶ
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 561 - Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion the ^Ethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten.
الصفحة 36 - 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. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now condescended to illumine his dungeon, to revive his courage, and to pour into his wounds her salutary balm. She taught him to compare his long prosperity and his recent distress, and to conceive new hopes from the inconstancy of fortune. Reason had informed...
الصفحة 300 - The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history; and although I have devoted myself to write the annals of a declining monarchy, I shall embrace the occasion to breathe the pure and invigorating air of the republic.
الصفحة 286 - That he was deprived of his eyes, and reduced by envy to beg his bread — " Give a penny to Belisarius the general ! " — is a ^fiction of later times, which has obtained credit, or rather favour, as a strange example of the vicissitudes of fortune.
الصفحة 634 - ... to grasp at a precarious and shortlived enjoyment. It is thus that the experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view. In a composition of some days, in a perusal of some hours...
الصفحة 502 - On a fatal day, in the holy season of Lent, Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church, and inhumanly butchered by the hands of Peter the reader and a troop of savage and merciless fanatics: her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster-shells, and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames.
الصفحة 617 - ... that, after an interval of thirty years, forgotten by, and forgetful of, the world, her mournful solitude was inaccessible to hope and fear ; and that truth, the naked, perfect truth, was more dear and sacred than the memory of her parent.
الصفحة 349 - A specious theory is confuted by this free and perfect experiment, which demonstrates that the liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute; the minute difference between a husband and a stranger, which might so easily be removed, might still more easily be forgotten; and the matron, who in five years can submit to the embraces of eight husbands, must cease to reverence the chastity...
الصفحة 293 - 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.
الصفحة 510 - God is my witness," said the pious prince, " that " I am not the author of this confusion. His providence will discern " and punish the guilty. Return to your provinces, and may your " private virtues repair the mischief and scandal of your meeting.