The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 3B. F. French, 1830 |
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... empires CHAPTER XLVII , A. D. The Lombards and Avars destroy the king and kingdom of the Gepide 567 Alboin ... empire ib . IV . The Armenians 228 611 His conquest of Syria 188 V. The Copts or Egyptians 229 614 Of Palestine 230 ...
... empires CHAPTER XLVII , A. D. The Lombards and Avars destroy the king and kingdom of the Gepide 567 Alboin ... empire ib . IV . The Armenians 228 611 His conquest of Syria 188 V. The Copts or Egyptians 229 614 Of Palestine 230 ...
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... Empire . - Abolition of the Schools of Athens , and the Consulship of Rome . THE emperor Justinian was born ( 1 ) near the ruins of Sardica ( the modern So- phia , ) of an obscure race ( 2 ) of barbarians , ( 3 ) the inhabitants of a ...
... Empire . - Abolition of the Schools of Athens , and the Consulship of Rome . THE emperor Justinian was born ( 1 ) near the ruins of Sardica ( the modern So- phia , ) of an obscure race ( 2 ) of barbarians , ( 3 ) the inhabitants of a ...
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... not imply either piety or repentance ; yet two years after her death , St. Theodora is celebrated by Paul Silentiarius . ( in Proem . v . 58-62 . VOL . III . 2 : band , who , in the room of a theatrical OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE . 9.
... not imply either piety or repentance ; yet two years after her death , St. Theodora is celebrated by Paul Silentiarius . ( in Proem . v . 58-62 . VOL . III . 2 : band , who , in the room of a theatrical OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE . 9.
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Page 119 - 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, (2) and the laws of Justinian still command the respect or obedience of independent nations.
Page 234 - Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion, the Ethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten.
Page 287 - Long life and victory to Charles, the most pious Augustus, crowned by God the great and pacific Emperor of the Romans...
Page 264 - Paul ; and, in every deed of mischief, he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Page 314 - Kadijah; in the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca, he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whose abode is not in the heavens, but in the mind of the Prophet. The faith which, under the name of Islam, he preached to his family and nation is compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction, " That there is only one God, and that Mohammed is the Apostle of God.
Page 129 - When Justinian ascended the throne, the Reformation of the Roman jurisprudence was an arduous but indispensable task. In the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no -fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found ; and the judges, poor .in the midst of riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.
Page 352 - ... who live retired in monasteries, and propose to themselves to serve God that way: let them alone, and neither kill them nor destroy their monasteries:" And you will find another sort of people that belong to the synagogue of Satan, who have shaven crowns;" be sure you cleave their skulls, and give them no quarter till they either turn Mahometans or pay tribute.
Page 314 - He compares the nations and religions of the earth ; discovers the weakness of the Persian and Roman monarchies ; beholds with pity and indignation the degeneracy of the times ; and resolves to unite, under one God and one king, the invincible spirit and primitive virtues of the Arabs.
Page 397 - 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 Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames.
Page 402 - A hundred lions were brought out, with a keeper to each lion. Among the other spectacles of rare and stupendous luxury, was a tree of gold and silver spreading into eighteen large branches...