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Page 135
... Evagrius ( l . v , c . 13 ) has added the reproach to his ministers . He applies this speech to the ceremony when Tiberius was invested with the rank of Cæsar . The loose expression , rather than the positive er- ror , of Theophanes ...
... Evagrius ( l . v , c . 13 ) has added the reproach to his ministers . He applies this speech to the ceremony when Tiberius was invested with the rank of Cæsar . The loose expression , rather than the positive er- ror , of Theophanes ...
Page 137
... Evagrius , 1. v , c . 13 ; Theophylact , l . iii , c . 12 , & c .; Theophanes , in Chron . p . 210-213 ; Zo- naras , tom . ii , 1. xiv , p . 72 ; Cedrenus , p . 392 ; Paul Warnefrid , de Gestis Langobard . l . iii , c . 11 , 12. The ...
... Evagrius , 1. v , c . 13 ; Theophylact , l . iii , c . 12 , & c .; Theophanes , in Chron . p . 210-213 ; Zo- naras , tom . ii , 1. xiv , p . 72 ; Cedrenus , p . 392 ; Paul Warnefrid , de Gestis Langobard . l . iii , c . 11 , 12. The ...
Page 141
... Evagrius ) a perfect aristocracy of reason and virtue . Some suspicion will de- grade the testimony of a subject , though he protests that his secret praise should never reach the ear of his sovereign , and some fail- ings seem to place ...
... Evagrius ) a perfect aristocracy of reason and virtue . Some suspicion will de- grade the testimony of a subject , though he protests that his secret praise should never reach the ear of his sovereign , and some fail- ings seem to place ...
Page 177
... Ixiv , p . 77 , 80 , 81 ; Evagrius , l . v , c . 7-15 ; Theophylact , 1. iii , c . 9-16 ° ; Agathias . 1. iv , p . 140 . VOL . VIII . N 74 1 .......... CHAP . The throne of Chosroes Nushirvan was filled OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE . 177 His death.
... Ixiv , p . 77 , 80 , 81 ; Evagrius , l . v , c . 7-15 ; Theophylact , 1. iii , c . 9-16 ° ; Agathias . 1. iv , p . 140 . VOL . VIII . N 74 1 .......... CHAP . The throne of Chosroes Nushirvan was filled OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE . 177 His death.
Page 193
... Evagrius ( 1. vi , c . 21 ) , and Theophylact ( 1. v , c . 13 , 14 ) , have pre- served the original letters of Chosroes , written in Greek , signed with his own hand , and afterwards inscribed on crosses and tables of gold , which were ...
... Evagrius ( 1. vi , c . 21 ) , and Theophylact ( 1. v , c . 13 , 14 ) , have pre- served the original letters of Chosroes , written in Greek , signed with his own hand , and afterwards inscribed on crosses and tables of gold , which were ...
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Page 62 - Roman matrons became the equal and voluntary companions of their lords, a new jurisprudence was introduced, that marriage, like other partnerships, might be dissolved by the abdication of one of the associates. In three centuries of prosperity and corruption, this principle was enlarged to frequent practice and pernicious abuse. Passion, interest, or caprice...
Page 344 - In a subsequent age the zeal of the Nestorians overleaped the limits which had confined the ambition and curiosity both of the Greeks and Persians. The missionaries of Balch and Samarcand pursued without fear the footsteps of the roving Tartar, and insinuated themselves into the camps of the valleys of Imaus and the banks of the Selinga.
Page 33 - 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 21 - The jurisprudence of the first Romans exhibited the scenes of a pantomime ; the words were adapted to the gestures, and the slightest error or neglect in the forms of proceeding was sufficient to annul the substance of the fairest claim. The communion of the marriage-life was denoted by the necessary elements of fire and water...
Page 347 - In arms, in arts, and possibly in virtue, they excelled the natives of Hindostan; the husbandmen cultivated the palm-tree, the merchants were enriched by the pepper-trade, the soldiers preceded the nairs or nobles of Malabar, and their hereditary privileges were respected by the gratitude or the fear of the king of Cochin and the Zamorin himself.
Page 56 - But the exposition of children was the prevailing and stubborn vice of antiquity: it was sometimes prescribed, often permitted, almost always practised with impunity by the nations who never entertained the Roman ideas of paternal power...
Page 34 - ... and the judges, poor in the midst of riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion. The subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of their lives and properties ; and the barbarous dialect of the Latins was imperfectly studied in the academies of Berytus and Constantinople. As an Illyrian soldier, that idiom was familiar to the infancy of Justinian ; his youth had been instructed by the lessons of jurisprudence, and his imperial choice selected...
Page 39 - Institutes, were declared to be the legitimate system of civil jurisprudence ; they alone were admitted in the tribunals, and they alone were taught in the academies of Rome, Constantinople, and Berytus.
Page 42 - Justinian," but not a fragment of it could be found. "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 labour...
Page 45 - It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation. To maintain the text of the Pandects, the Institutes, and the Code, the use of ciphers and abbreviations was rigorously proscribed; and as Justinian recollected, that the perpetual edict had been buried under the weight of commentators, he denounced the punishment of forgery against the rash civilians who should presume to interpret or pervert the will of their sovereign.