The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Том 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 |
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... Roman Generals Lieutenants of the Emperor Divifion of the Provinces between the Emperor and the Senate The former preferves his military Command , and Guards , in Rome itself Confular and Tribunitian Powers Imperial Prerogatives The ...
... Roman Generals Lieutenants of the Emperor Divifion of the Provinces between the Emperor and the Senate The former preferves his military Command , and Guards , in Rome itself Confular and Tribunitian Powers Imperial Prerogatives The ...
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... Roman Finances . A.D. Virtues of Alex- Army . General Page Greatnefs and Difcontent of Severus 204 His Wife the Empress Julia ib . Their two Sons , Caracalla and Geta 206 Their mutual Averfion to each other ib . Three Emperors 207 208 ...
... Roman Finances . A.D. Virtues of Alex- Army . General Page Greatnefs and Difcontent of Severus 204 His Wife the Empress Julia ib . Their two Sons , Caracalla and Geta 206 Their mutual Averfion to each other ib . Three Emperors 207 208 ...
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... Roman Empires 165. Cities of Seleucia and Ctefiphon 216. Conqueft of Ofrhoene by the Romans War against the Romans 331 332 334 230. Artaxerxes claims the Provinces of Afia , and declares 233. Pretended Victory of Alexander Severus More ...
... Roman Empires 165. Cities of Seleucia and Ctefiphon 216. Conqueft of Ofrhoene by the Romans War against the Romans 331 332 334 230. Artaxerxes claims the Provinces of Afia , and declares 233. Pretended Victory of Alexander Severus More ...
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... Romans were atchieved under the republic ; and the emperors , for the most part , were fatisfied with preferving thofe dominions which had been acquired by the policy of the fenate , the active emulation of the confuls , and the martial ...
... Romans were atchieved under the republic ; and the emperors , for the most part , were fatisfied with preferving thofe dominions which had been acquired by the policy of the fenate , the active emulation of the confuls , and the martial ...
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... Roman discipline , that a good foldier fhould dread his officers far more than the enemy . From fuch laudible arts did the valour of the Imperial troops receive a degree of firm- nefs and docility , unattainable by the impetuous and ...
... Roman discipline , that a good foldier fhould dread his officers far more than the enemy . From fuch laudible arts did the valour of the Imperial troops receive a degree of firm- nefs and docility , unattainable by the impetuous and ...
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Стр. xxx - 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.
Стр. xxx - 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.
Стр. xxx - ... 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...
Стр. v - 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.
Стр. 47 - 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.
Стр. 44 - 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...
Стр. 131 - 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.
Стр. 1 - 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.
Стр. 208 - ... 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...
Стр. vi - 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.