The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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Africa Alaric Alemanni Alps ancient Antioch arms army arts Asia Aurelian barbarians Belisarius Bosporus Britain Cæsar camp capital Caracalla Carinus celebrated CHAP character Christians church civil command Commodus conqueror conquest Constantine Constantinople court Ctesiphon danger Danube death defeat deserved dignity Diocletian dominions East edict Egypt Elagabalus emperor enemy Euphrates faithful father favour fortune frontiers Galerius Gallienus Gaul glory Gothic Goths Greeks guards Honorius honours Imperial Italy Julian Justinian king laws legions Licinius magistrates Magnentius Maxentius Maximian merit miles military ministers monarch nations Numerian palace peace persecution Persian person possession Prætorian præfect prince Probus provinces purple rank reign religion republic restored revenge Rhine Roman empire Roman world Rome Sapor senate Septimius Severus Severus siege soldiers soon sovereign spirit Stilicho success successor Syria Theodosius Thrace throne Tigris tion title of Augustus Trajan triumph troops tyrant Valens Valentinian valour Vandals victory virtue walls youth
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Page 17 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 16 - His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Page 11 - Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.
Page 504 - A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the Rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or the Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames.
Page 648 - From the lines, the galleys, and the bridge, the Ottoman artillery thundered on all sides; and the camp and city, the Greeks and the Turks, were involved in a cloud of smoke, which could only be dispelled by the final deliverance or destruction of the Roman empire.
Page 673 - Catholic worship; but it is superfluous to enumerate their pious foundations of altars, chapels, and churches, since these lesser stars are eclipsed by the sun of the Vatican, by the dome of St. Peter, the most glorious structure that ever has been applied to the use of religion.
Page 342 - The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the CODE, the PANDECTS, and the INSTITUTES ; 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.
Page 438 - The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first time, a Christian bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince : the choice of magistrates, the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna.
Page 463 - ... they had always despised became an object of hope and desire. The Koran inculcates, in the most absolute sense, the tenets of fate and predestination, which would extinguish both industry and virtue, if the actions of man were governed by his speculative belief. Yet their influence in every age has exalted the courage of the Saracens and Turks. The first companions of Mahomet advanced to battle with a fearless confidence: there is no danger where there is no chance: they were ordained to perish...
Page 255 - Romans were pressed by a victorious enemy, they gradually, and unskilfully, retired towards the Chersonesus of Thrace; and that narrow peninsula, the last extremity of the land, was marked by their third, and irreparable, defeat. By the destruction of this army, Attila acquired the indisputable possession of the field. From the Hellespont to Thermopylae, and the suburbs of Constantinople, he ravaged, without resistance, and without mercy, the provinces of Thrace and Macedonia. Heraclea and Hadrianople...