The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, เล่มที่ 4Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, 1806 |
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... secure themselves against the surprises of the night by strong posts and vigilant guards ; to prevent resistance by their unexpected arrival ; to elude examination * Ammian . xxi . 8. In this promotion , Julian obeyed the law which he ...
... secure themselves against the surprises of the night by strong posts and vigilant guards ; to prevent resistance by their unexpected arrival ; to elude examination * Ammian . xxi . 8. In this promotion , Julian obeyed the law which he ...
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... secure , if it were yet possible , the pass of Succi ; the recruits , the horses , the arms , and the magazines which had been prepared against Sapor , were appropriated to the service of the civil war ; and the domestic victories ...
... secure , if it were yet possible , the pass of Succi ; the recruits , the horses , the arms , and the magazines which had been prepared against Sapor , were appropriated to the service of the civil war ; and the domestic victories ...
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... secure of impunity , had often marched , at the head of their congregations , to attack and demolish the fortresses of the prince of darkness . The consecrated lands , which had increased the patrimony of the sovereign or of the clergy ...
... secure of impunity , had often marched , at the head of their congregations , to attack and demolish the fortresses of the prince of darkness . The consecrated lands , which had increased the patrimony of the sovereign or of the clergy ...
หน้า 157
... secure the frontier from the desultory incursions of the enemy , be- fore they attempted the passage of the Tigris . Their subsequent operations were left to the dis- cretion of the generals ; but Julian expected , that after wasting ...
... secure the frontier from the desultory incursions of the enemy , be- fore they attempted the passage of the Tigris . Their subsequent operations were left to the dis- cretion of the generals ; but Julian expected , that after wasting ...
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... secure a remote frontier , perpetually exposed to the inroads of the hostile Arabs . A detachment of four thousand men was left at Circesium , which completed , to the num ber of ten thousand , the regular garrison of that important ...
... secure a remote frontier , perpetually exposed to the inroads of the hostile Arabs . A detachment of four thousand men was left at Circesium , which completed , to the num ber of ten thousand , the regular garrison of that important ...
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Abbé Alemanni Ammianus xxii ancient Antioch apostate Arian arms army arts Assyria Athanasius Barbarians bishop Bleterie Cæsar Cappadocia celebrated CHAP Christian church command conduct Constantinople Constantius Ctesiphon danger Danube death declared desert disgrace divine East Eccles ecclesiastical edit emperor empire enemy Epist Eunapius Euphrates faith favour Gaul glory gods Gregory Nazianzen Gregory Orat guilt Hist honour impatient imperial Jerusalem Jovian Jovinus Julian justice labour laws legions lian Libanius Orat magistrates Mém merit miles military mind ministers Misopogon monarch Nisibis oppression Pagans palace palace of Constantinople Parent passions peace perhaps Persian Persian war philosopher pious præfect prince Procopius provinces rank reign religion religious restored Roman Rome royal Sallust Sapor senate Sextus Rufus Socrates soldiers soon sophist sovereign Sozomen spirit successor temple Themistius Theodoret throne Tigris Tillemont tion triumph troops Valens Valentinian valour victory virtues XXIII XXIV zeal Zosimus
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หน้า 26 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
หน้า 168 - The face of the country was interspersed with groves of innumerable palm-trees, and the diligent natives celebrated, either in verse or prose, the three hundred and sixty uses to which the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the juice, and the fruit were skilfully applied.
หน้า 298 - If, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary town of Glasgow, a race of cannibals has really existed, we may contemplate, in the period of the Scottish history, the opposite extremes of savage and civilized life.
หน้า 12 - Caesar sustained till the third hour of the day their prayers, their reproaches, and their menaces; nor did he yield, till he had been repeatedly assured, that if he wished to live, he must consent to reign.
หน้า 427 - The rising generation was not disposed to accept his advice or to imitate his example; and, in the study of the reign of Theodosius, we are reduced to illustrate the partial narrative of Zosimus, by the obscure hints of fragments and chronicles, by the figurative style of poetry or panegyric, and by the precarious assistance of the ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation. Conscious of these disadvantages, which...
หน้า 196 - While Julian struggled with the almost insuperable difficulties of his situation, the silent hours of the night were still devoted to study and contemplation. Whenever he closed his eyes in short and interrupted slumbers, his mind was agitated with painful anxiety...
หน้า 409 - Roman cavalry fled; the infantry was abandoned, surrounded, and cut in pieces. The most skilful evolutions, the firmest courage, are scarcely sufficient to extricate a body of foot, encompassed, on an open plain, by superior numbers of horse; but the troops of Valens, oppressed by the weight of the enemy and their own fears, were crowded into a narrow space, where it was impossible for them to extend their ranks, or even to use, with effect, their swords and javelins. In the midst of tumult...
หน้า 108 - Whilst Alypius, assisted by the governor of the province, urged with vigour and diligence the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen; and, the victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned.
หน้า 38 - ... celestial powers of the gods or of the genii. From this principle he justly concluded, that the man who presumes to reign, should aspire to the perfection of the divine nature; that he should purify his soul from her mortal and terrestrial part; that he should extinguish his appetites, enlighten his understanding, regulate his passions, and subdue the wild beast, which, according to the lively metaphor of Aristotle, seldom fails to ascend the throne of a despot.
หน้า 345 - Tartars, afford a sure and increasing supply of flesh and milk ; in the far greater part of the uncultivated waste, the vegetation of the grass is quick and luxuriant ; and there are few places so extremely barren, that the hardy cattle of the north cannot find some tolerable pasture. The supply is multiplied and prolonged by the undistinguishing appetite, and patient abstinence of the Tartars.