The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 3Methuen & Company, 1901 - Byzantine Empire |
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Africa Alani Alaric Alemanni Ambrose Ammianus ancient Antioch Arcadius archbishop Arian arms army arts Athanaric Barbarians bishop blood camp cavalry character Christian church civil Claudian command conduct conqueror conquest Constantine Constantinople courage court danger Danube death desert diligence disgrace domestic dominions East Ecclés ecclesiastical edict emperor empire enemy epist Eunapius faith father favour formidable Fritigern Gaul Gothic Gothic war Goths Gratian Gregory Hist historian Honorius honourable hostile Huns Imperial insensibly Italy Jerom Jornandes Jovian king laws Libanius master-general Maximus Mém merit Milan miles military ministers monarch nation numbers Orat Orosius Ostrogoths Pagan palace passions peace perhaps præfect prince Procopius provinces reign Roman Rome Rufinus Scythia senate soldiers soon sovereign Sozomen spirit Stilicho subjects success Tartars temper Themistius Theodoret Theodosius thousand Thrace throne Tillemont tion tribes troops tyrant usurper Valens Valentinian valour victory virtues Visigoths xxxi youth zeal Zosimus
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Page 332 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Page 328 - This awful catastrophe of Rome filled the astonished empire with grief and terror. So interesting a contrast of greatness and ruin disposed the fond credulity of the people to deplore, and even to exaggerate, the afflictions of the queen of cities. The clergy, who applied to recent events the lofty metaphors of Oriental prophecy, were sometimes tempted to confound the destruction of the capital and the dissolution of the globe.
Page 240 - If the subjects of Rome could be ignorant of their obligations to the great Theodosius, they were too soon convinced, how painfully the spirit and abilities of their deceased emperor had supported the frail and mouldering edifice of the republic. He died in the month of January; and before the end of the winter of the same year, the Gothic nation was in arms.
Page 143 - ... is full of mechanics and slaves, who are all of them profound theologians; and preach in the shops, and in the streets. If you desire a man to change a piece of silver, he informs you, wherein the Son differs from the Father; if you ask the price of a loaf, you are told by way of reply, that the Son is inferior to the Father; and if you inquire, whether the bath is ready, the answer is, that the Son was made out of nothing.
Page 380 - ... summer, through the provinces of Asia Minor, where he was continually threatened by the hostile attacks of the Isaurians, and the more implacable fury of the monks. Yet Chrysostom arrived in safety at the place of his confinement; and the three years which he spent at Cucusus, and the neighbouring town of Arabissus, were the last and most glorious of his life. His character was consecrated by absence and persecution; the faults of his administration were no longer remembered; but every tongue...
Page 216 - Arcadius, who then was about eighteen years of age, was born in Spain, in the humble habitation of a private family. But he received a princely education in the palace of Constantinople ; and his inglorious life was spent in that peaceful and splendid seat of royalty, from whence he appeared to reign over the provinces of Thrace, Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt, from the lower Danube to the confines of Persia and Ethiopia.
Page 72 - Some of the happy savages, who dwell between the tropics, are plentifully nourished by the liberality of nature ; but in the climates of the north, a nation of shepherds is reduced to their flocks and herds. The skilful practitioners of the medical art will determine (if they are able to determine) how far the temper of the human mind may be affected by the use of animal, or of vegetable, food ; and whether the common association of carnivorous and cruel deserves to be considered in any other light,...
Page 141 - It is our pleasure (such is the Imperial style) that all the nations which are governed [Feb. a] by our clemency and moderation should steadfastly adhere to the religion which was taught by St. Peter to the Romans...
Page 301 - The libraries which they have inherited from their fathers are secluded, like dreary sepulchres, from the light of day. But the costly instruments of the theatre, flutes, and enormous lyres, and hydraulic organs, are constructed for their use ; and the harmony of vocal and instrumental music is incessantly repeated in the palaces of Rome. In those palaces, sound is preferred to sense, and the care of the body to that of the mind.
Page 259 - Romans were provoked by this interruption of their pleasures ; and the rash monk was overwhelmed under a shower of stones. But the madness of the people soon subsided; they respected the memory of Telemachus who had deserved the honours of martyrdom, and they submitted without a murmur to the laws of Honorius, which abolished for ever the human sacrifices of the amphitheatre*.