The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, المجلد 5William Y. Birch & Abraham Small, Printed by Robert Carr, 1805 |
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... master - artist , * my excuse may be found in the ex- treme difficulty of assigning a proper measure to such a cata- logue . A naked list of names and editions would not be satisfactory either to myself or my readers : the characters of ...
... master - artist , * my excuse may be found in the ex- treme difficulty of assigning a proper measure to such a cata- logue . A naked list of names and editions would not be satisfactory either to myself or my readers : the characters of ...
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... masters ; but he disdained or neglected the arts of Greece , and so ignorant did he always remain of the first elements of science , that a rude mark was contrived to represent the signature of the illiterate king of Italy . As soon as ...
... masters ; but he disdained or neglected the arts of Greece , and so ignorant did he always remain of the first elements of science , that a rude mark was contrived to represent the signature of the illiterate king of Italy . As soon as ...
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... master of three or four horses ; they now follow thee on foot like slaves , through the desarts of Thrace ; those men who were tempted by " the hope of measuring gold with a bushel , those brave " men who are as free and as noble as ...
... master of three or four horses ; they now follow thee on foot like slaves , through the desarts of Thrace ; those men who were tempted by " the hope of measuring gold with a bushel , those brave " men who are as free and as noble as ...
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... master of the field , and the invader , strongly entrenched in his camp of Pavia , was reduced to solicit the aid of a kindred nation , the Visi- goths of Gaul . In the course of this history , the most voracious appetite for war will ...
... master of the field , and the invader , strongly entrenched in his camp of Pavia , was reduced to solicit the aid of a kindred nation , the Visi- goths of Gaul . In the course of this history , the most voracious appetite for war will ...
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... master of the offi- ces , with the public and patrimonial treasures , whose functions are painted in gaudy colours by the rhetoric of Cassiodorius , still continued to act as the ministers of state . And the subordinate care of justice ...
... master of the offi- ces , with the public and patrimonial treasures , whose functions are painted in gaudy colours by the rhetoric of Cassiodorius , still continued to act as the ministers of state . And the subordinate care of justice ...
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Africa Agathias Aleman ambassadors Anastasius ancient Anecdot Antonina Arian arms army avarice Barbarians Baronius Belisarius Bibliot Boethius Byzantine Cæsars camp Campania Carthage Cassiodorius CHAP Chosroes Chron church Colchos command conqueror conquest Constantinople danger Danube death East edit emperor empire empress enemy Ennodius eunuch Euxine factions faith favour fortune gates Gelimer gold Gothic king Goths Græc Greek guards hero Heruli Hist historian honour horses hundred Huns Italian Italy John Malala Jornandes jurisprudence justice Justinian labour laws magistrates Marcellinus merit miles military Mingrelia monarch Narses nations Nushirvan Odoacer Ostrogoths palace Pandects peace perhaps Persian philosopher præfect prince Procopius Procopius Goth provinces Ravenna reign restored Roman Rome royal senate Sicily siege slaves soldiers soon sovereign spirit subjects Theodora Theodoric Theophanes thousand throne tinian tion Totila treasures Tribonian troops Turks valour Vandals victory viii virtue Vitiges walls XLII XLIII XLIV XXXIX
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الصفحة 458 - Six thousand guards successively mounted before the palace gate; the service of the interior apartments was performed by twelve thousand slaves; and in the number of three thousand virgins, the fairest of Asia, some happy concubine might console her master for the age or the indifference of Sira.
الصفحة 298 - 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 57 - No place was safe or sacred from their depredations; to gratify either avarice or revenge, they profusely spilt the blood of the innocent; churches and altars were polluted by atrocious murders; and it was the boast of the assassins, that their dexterity could always inflict a mortal wound with a single stroke of their dagger. The dissolute youth of Constantinople adopted the blue livery of disorder; the laws were silent, and the bonds of society were relaxed: creditors were compelled to resign their...
الصفحة 338 - According to his discretion, a father might chastise the real or imaginary faults of his children, by stripes, by imprisonment, by exile, by sending them to the country to work in chains among the meanest of his servants. The majesty of a parent was armed with the power of life and death * ; and the examples of such bloody executions, which were sometimes praised and never punished, may be traced in the annals of Rome, beyond the times of Pompey and Augustus.
الصفحة 337 - The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. But the exclusive, absolute, and perpetual dominion of the father over his children, is peculiar to the Roman jurisprudence,102 and seems to be coeval with the foundation of the city.
الصفحة 324 - In the space of ten centuries, the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found; and the judges, poor in the midst of riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.
الصفحة 448 - Ignorant of letters, of laws, and even of arms, he indulged in the supreme rank a more ample privilege of lust and drunkenness; and his brutal pleasures were either injurious to his subjects or disgraceful to himself. Without assuming the office of a prince, he renounced the profession of a soldier; and the reign of Phocas afflicted Europe with ignominious peace, and Asia with desolating war. His savage temper was inflamed by passion, hardened by fear, and exasperated by resistance of reproach.
الصفحة 303 - Institutions : 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. Wise or fortunate is the prince who connects his own reputation with the honour and interest of a perpetual order of men.
الصفحة 121 - In the seventh year of the reign of Justinian, and about the time of the summer solstice, the whole fleet of six hundred ships was ranged in martial pomp before the gardens of the palace. The patriarch pronounced his benediction, the emperor signified his last commands, the general's trumpet gave the signal of departure, and every heart, according to its fears or wishes, explored with anxious curiosity the omens of misfortune and success.
الصفحة 50 - This indulgence was speedily followed by the solemn nuptials of Justinian and Theodora; her dignity was gradually exalted with that of her lover; and, as soon as Justin had invested his nephew with the purple, the patriarch of Constantinople placed the diadem on the heads of the emperor and empress of the East. But the usual honours which the severity of Roman manners had allowed to the wives of princes could not satisfy either the ambition of Theodora or the fondness of Justinian. He seated her...