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Alemanni Ammianus ancient Antioch Arian arms army arts Assyria Athanaric Athanasius avarice barbarians bishop Bleterie Cæsar camp cavalry celebrated CHAP Christian church civil command conduct Constantinople Constantius Ctesiphon danger Danube death declared desert disgrace East Eccles ecclesiastical edit Empereurs emperor empire enemy Epist Eunapius Euphrates faith favour Fritigern Gaul glory gods Gothic Goths Gratian Gregory Nazianzen guilt Hist historian honourable hostile hundred Huns impatient imperial Jerom Jovian Julian king labour laws legions Libanius ment merit miles military mind ministers Misopogon monarch nation Orat pagan palace Parent passions peace perhaps Persian philosopher prefect prince Procopius provinces rank reign religion river Roman Rome royal Sallust Sapor Scythia Sextus Rufus soldiers soon sovereign Sozomen spirit success temple Themistius Theodosius thousand throne Tigris Tillemont tion treaty tribes troops Valens Valentinian valour victory virtue XXII XXIII XXIV XXVI zeal Zosimus
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หน้า 108 - ... 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."* " Such authority should satisfy a believing, and must astonish an incredulous mind," acknowledges even the sceptical Gibbon.
หน้า 104 - As the Christians were firmly persuaded that a sentence of everlasting destruction had been pronounced against the whole fabric of the Mosaic law, the Imperial sophist would have converted the success of his undertaking into a specious argument against the faith of prophecy, and the truth of revelation.
หน้า 339 - Yet, if it be true that the sentiment of compassion is imperceptibly weakened by the sight and practice of domestic cruelty, we may observe that the horrid objects which are disguised by the arts of European refinement are exhibited in their naked and most disgusting simplicity in the tent of a Tartarian shepherd. The ox or the sheep are slaughtered by the same hand from which they were accustomed to receive their daily food ; and the bleeding limbs are served, with very little preparation, on the...
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 370 - A fabulous origin was assigned worthy of their form and manners, — that the witches of Scythia, who, for their foul and deadly practices, had been driven from society, had copulated in the desert with infernal spirits, and that the Huns were the offspring of this execrable conjunction.58 The tale, so full of horror and absurdity, was greedily embraced by the credulous hatred of the Goths...
หน้า 343 - The connection between the people and their territory is of so frail a texture that it may be broken by the slightest accident. The camp, and not the soil, is the native country of the genuine Tartar.
หน้า 192 - Wherever they moved, the inhabitants deserted the open villages and took shelter in the fortified towns; the cattle was driven away; the grass and ripe corn were consumed with fire; and, as soon as the flames had subsided which interrupted the march of Julian, he beheld the melancholy face of a smoking and naked desert.
หน้า 294 - 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 civilised life.
หน้า 77 - Julian was penetrated with sincere, deep, and unalterable enthusiasm ; though he might sometimes exhibit the vicissitudes of pious fraud and hypocrisy which may be observed, or at least suspected, in the characters of the most conscientious fanatics. From that moment he consecrated his life to the service of the gods ; and while the occupations of war, of government, and of study seemed to claim the whole measure of his time, a stated portion of the hours of the night was invariably reserved for...
หน้า 197 - ... stepping forth, to refresh his wearied spirits with the coolness of the midnight air, he beheld a fiery meteor, which shot athwart the sky, and suddenly vanished. Julian was convinced that he had seen the menacing countenance of the god of war...