Elements of General History: Ancient and Modern, เล่มที่ 3

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หน้า 404 - But all their works they do for to be seen of men : they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
หน้า 54 - We are generally at a loss to conceive, how mankind can subsist under customs and manners extremely different from our own ; and we are apt to exaggerate the misery of barbarous times, by an imagination of what we ourselves should suffer in a situation to which we are not accustomed.
หน้า 49 - ... frequent practice of war tends- to strengthen the bands of society ; and the practice of depredation itself engages men in trials of mutual attachment and courage. What threatened to ruin and overset every good disposition in the human breast, what seemed to banish justice from the societies of men, tends to unite the species in clans and fraternities ; formidable, indeed, and hostile to one another, but, in the domestic society of each, faithful, disinterested, and generous. Frequent dangers,...
หน้า 47 - ... must arrive at unequal conditions by chance. In desiring property, they only mean to secure their subsistence: but the brave who lead in war, have likewise the largest share in its spoils. The eminent are fond of devising hereditary honours; and the multitude, who admire the parent, are ready to extend their esteem to his offspring.
หน้า 56 - Romans, in entering a town by assault, or inforcing an incampment, have found the mother in the act of destroying her children, that they might not be taken; and the dagger of the parent, red with the blood of his family, ready to be plunged at last into his own breast...
หน้า 54 - In the interval of occasional outrages, the friendly intercourses of men, even in their rudest condition, is affectionate and happy. In rude ages, the persons and properties of individuals are secure, because each has a friend, as well as an enemy; and if the one is disposed to molest, the other is ready to protect. And the very admiration of valour, which, in some instances, tends to sanctify violence, inspires likewise certain maxims of generosity and honour, that tend to prevent the commission...
หน้า 109 - ... his return the rear of his army was attacked at Roncesvalles by the duke of Gascony, and his gallant nephew Roland slain. This trifling engagement has furnished the theme of an immense number of romances. 5. During all this period the war with the Saxons continued : Pepin had compelled them to pay tribute, and besides forced them to receive missionaries, but they could neither bear to pay the one nor embrace the religion of the other, the pacific spirit of which was so contradictory to the human...
หน้า 175 - ... this decree, an extract of which is found in Gratian ; but it has been observed, that though the form may be false, yet the substance of it may be true, as Luitprand gives the same account conformably to the act itself. Scarce had the emperor quitted Italy, when the Romans mutinied and drove out John XIII., who had been elected in presence of the imperial commissioners after the death of Leo VIII. Otho, justly provoked, returned a fourth time, and severely punished the seditious. He banished...
หน้า 45 - But we may apprehend, that the individual having now found a separate interest, the bands of society must become less firm, and domestic disorders more frequent. The members of any community, being distinguished among themselves by unequal shares in the distribution of property, the ground of a permanent and palpable subordination is laid.
หน้า 284 - ... town to town, haranguing the multitude, performing pretended miracles, and inducing all ranks, from the emperor to the peasant, to enrol themselves under the banners of the cross. Peter the Hermit, a man of a hideous figure and aspect, covered with rags, walking barefooted, and speaking as a prophet, inspired the people every where with an enthusiasm similar to his own. Thousands of wicked and abandoned debauchees were thus collected ; bishops, priests, monks, women and children, were all enrolled...

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