The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1. kötetT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 |
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... Prætorian Guards 158 193. And by the Senate 159 The Memory of Commodus declared infamous ib . Legal Jurifdiction of the Senate over the Emperors 160 Virtues of Pertinax 161 He endeavours to reform the State 162 His Regulations ib . His ...
... Prætorian Guards 158 193. And by the Senate 159 The Memory of Commodus declared infamous ib . Legal Jurifdiction of the Senate over the Emperors 160 Virtues of Pertinax 161 He endeavours to reform the State 162 His Regulations ib . His ...
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... Prætorian Guards Their Camp , Strength , and Confidence Their fpecious Claims They offer the Empire to Sale 193. It is purchased by Julian Julian is acknowledged by the Senate Takes Poffeffion of the Palace The public Difcontent The ...
... Prætorian Guards Their Camp , Strength , and Confidence Their fpecious Claims They offer the Empire to Sale 193. It is purchased by Julian Julian is acknowledged by the Senate Takes Poffeffion of the Palace The public Difcontent The ...
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... Prætorian Guards The Office of Prætorian Præfect The Senate oppreffed by military Defpotism New Maxims of the Imperial Prerogative Page 191 192 · 193 195 ib . ib . 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 CHAP . VI . The Death of Severus . -Tyranny ...
... Prætorian Guards The Office of Prætorian Præfect The Senate oppreffed by military Defpotism New Maxims of the Imperial Prerogative Page 191 192 · 193 195 ib . ib . 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 CHAP . VI . The Death of Severus . -Tyranny ...
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... Prætorian Guards , and Murder of 244 ib . 246 247 ib . Ulpian · 249 Danger of Dion Caffius 250 Tumults of the Legions 251 Firmness of the Emperor ib . Defects of his Reign and Character 253 Digreffion on the Finances of the Empire 254 ...
... Prætorian Guards , and Murder of 244 ib . 246 247 ib . Ulpian · 249 Danger of Dion Caffius 250 Tumults of the Legions 251 Firmness of the Emperor ib . Defects of his Reign and Character 253 Digreffion on the Finances of the Empire 254 ...
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... Prætorian Guards Page 289 290 292 293 ib . 294 296 ib . 298 299 300 ib . 302 303 304 The third Gordian remains fole Emperor 305 306 307 308 243. The Arts of Philip 309 244. Murder of Gordian ib . Form of a Military Republic ib . Reign ...
... Prætorian Guards Page 289 290 292 293 ib . 294 296 ib . 298 299 300 ib . 302 303 304 The third Gordian remains fole Emperor 305 306 307 308 243. The Arts of Philip 309 244. Murder of Gordian ib . Form of a Military Republic ib . Reign ...
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xxx. oldal - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
xxx. oldal - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters and all nature was silent.
xxx. oldal - ... berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country the lake and the mountains the air was temperate the sky was serene the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters and all nature was silent i will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame...
v. oldal - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
47. oldal - The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and respective influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile.
44. oldal - Rome by observing that the empire was above two thousand miles in breadth, from the wall of Antoninus and the northern limits of Dacia to Mount Atlas and the tropic of Cancer; that it extended in length more than three thousand miles, from the Western Ocean to the Euphrates; that it was situated in the finest part of the Temperate Zone, between the twenty-fourth and fifty-sixth degrees...
131. oldal - But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and, when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies.
1. oldal - The gentle, but powerful, influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.
208. oldal - ... revenge of Severus with the generous clemency of Fingal ; the timid and brutal cruelty of Caracalla, with the bravery, the tenderness, the elegant genius of Ossian; the mercenary chiefs who, from motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in a word, we contemplated the untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerate Romans, polluted with the mean vices...
vi. oldal - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.