The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8Bell and Bradfute, Peter Hill, Silvester Doig and A. Stirling, and John Ogle., 1811 |
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... Faith of Chalcedon , 451-482 Discord of the East , 506 - 309 482 The henoticon of Zeno , 311 508-518 The Trisagion , and religious war , till the ここ 2 death of Anastasius , 314 514 First religious war , 317 - 519-565 Theological ...
... Faith of Chalcedon , 451-482 Discord of the East , 506 - 309 482 The henoticon of Zeno , 311 508-518 The Trisagion , and religious war , till the ここ 2 death of Anastasius , 314 514 First religious war , 317 - 519-565 Theological ...
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... faith and confidence . The in- denture of covenants was a broken straw ; weights and scales were introduced into every payment , and the heir who accepted a testa- ment , was sometimes obliged to snap his fingers , to cast away his ...
... faith and confidence . The in- denture of covenants was a broken straw ; weights and scales were introduced into every payment , and the heir who accepted a testa- ment , was sometimes obliged to snap his fingers , to cast away his ...
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... faith , and was supposed to entertain the sentiments of an atheist and a pagan , which have been imputed , inconsistently enough , to the last philosophers of Greece . His avarice was more clearly proved and more sensibly felt . If he ...
... faith , and was supposed to entertain the sentiments of an atheist and a pagan , which have been imputed , inconsistently enough , to the last philosophers of Greece . His avarice was more clearly proved and more sensibly felt . If he ...
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... faith of a Pisan chronicle , ( p . 409 , 410 ) , without a name or a date . The whole story , though unknown to the xiith century , embellished by ignorant ages , and sus- pected by rigid criticism , is not , however , destitute of much ...
... faith of a Pisan chronicle , ( p . 409 , 410 ) , without a name or a date . The whole story , though unknown to the xiith century , embellished by ignorant ages , and sus- pected by rigid criticism , is not , however , destitute of much ...
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... faith ( of human and social. • The revolutions of the Roman laws of inheritance are finely , though sometimes fancifully , deduced by Montesquieu , ( Esprit des Loix , l . xxvii ) . Of the civil jurisprudence of successions , testaments ...
... faith ( of human and social. • The revolutions of the Roman laws of inheritance are finely , though sometimes fancifully , deduced by Montesquieu , ( Esprit des Loix , l . xxvii ) . Of the civil jurisprudence of successions , testaments ...
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Page 23 - 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 46 - The same protection was due to every period of existence; and reason must applaud the humanity of Paulus for imputing the crime of murder to the father who strangles, or starves, or abandons his new-born infant; or exposes him in a public place to find the mercy which he himself had denied. But the exposition of children...
Page 202 - ... in the supreme rank a more ample privilege of lust and drunkenness, and his brutal pleasures were either injurious to his subjects or disgraceful to himself. Without assuming the office of a prince, he renounced the profession of a soldier, and the reign of Phocas afflicted Europe with ignominious peace* and Asia with desolating war. His savage temper was inflamed by passion, hardened by fear, exasperated by resistance or reproach.
Page 212 - Egypt itself, the only province which had been exempt since the time of Diocletian from foreign and domestic war, was again subdued by the successors of Cyrus. Pelusium, the key of that impervious country, was surprised by the cavalry of the Persians : they passed with impunity the innumerable channels of the Delta, and explored the long valley of the Nile from the pyramids of Memphis to the confines of Ethiopia. Alexandria might have been relieved by a naval force, but the archbishop and...
Page 7 - Attached to no party, interested only for the truth and candour of history, and directed by the most temperate and skilful guides*, I enter with just diffidence on the subject of civil law, which has exhausted so many learned lives, and clothed the walls of such spacious libraries.
Page 80 - The decemvirs distributed with much liberality the slighter chastisements of flagellation and servitude ; and nine crimes of a very different complexion are adjudged worthy of death. 1. Any act of treason against the state, or of correspondence with the public enemy. The mode of execution was painful and ignominious : the head of the degenerate Roman was shrouded in a veil, his hands were tied behind his back, and, after he had been scourged by the lictor, he was suspended in the midst of the forum...
Page 306 - The statues of the emperor were broken, and his person was concealed in a suburb, till, at the end of three days, he dared to implore the mercy of his subjects. Without his diadem, and in the posture of a suppliant, Anastasius appeared on the throne of the circus. The Catholics, before his face, rehearsed...
Page 305 - ... of a mystery in the schools. The Trisagion, with and without this obnoxious addition, was chanted in the cathedral by two adverse choirs, and when their lungs were exhausted, they had recourse to the more solid arguments of sticks and stones; the aggressors were punished by the emperor, and defended by the patriarch; and the crown and mitre were staked on the event of this momentous quarrel. The streets were instantly crowded with innumerable swarms of men, women, and children; the legions of...
Page 240 - Dastagerd, and, though much of the treasure had been removed, and much had been expended, the remaining wealth appears to have exceeded their hopes, and even to have satiated their avarice.
Page 32 - A rumour, devoid of evidence," says Gibbon, "has been propagated by the enemies of Justinian, that the Jurisprudence of ancient Rome was reduced to ashes by the author of the Pandects, from the vain persuasion that it was now either false or superfluous. Without usurping an office so invidious, the Emperor might safely commit to ignorance and time the accomplishment of this destructive wish. Before the invention of printing and paper, the...