...which had been trampled CHAP, under the feet of the victorious Greeks. But the subjects of XLV11Ithe Byzantine empire, who assume and dishonour the names...humanity, nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes. The freemen of antiquity might repeat with generous enthusiasm the sentence of Homer, " that on the...

...fancy to the gigantic size of Asia, which had been trampled under the feet of the victorious Greeks. But the subjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume...humanity, nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes. The freemen of antiquity might repeat, with generous enthusiasm, the sentence of Homer, " that on the...

...Asia, which harl been train- CHAP. pled under the feet of the victorious Greeks. But the XLVI!Isubjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume and dishonour...humanity, nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes. The freemen of antiquity might repeat with generous .enthusiasm the sentence of Homer, " that on the...

...number seemed to be multiplied by the strong and various discriminations of character ; but the subject of the Byzantine empire, who assume and dishonour...uniformity of abject vices " must every nation sink, where die love of wealth and power pervades the public mind, and becomes the general sentiment, the predominating...

...the ocean. Nor is the loss of external splendour compensated by the nobler gifts of virtue or genius. The subjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume and...humanity, nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes."3 In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Suabian Princes, of the family of Hohenstauffen,...

...fancy to the gigantic size of Asia, which had been trampled under the feet of the victorious Greeks. But the subjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume...humanity nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes. The freemen of antiquity might repeat with generous enthusiasm the sentence of Homer, " that on the...

...the subjects of the Byzantine Empire, who assume and dishonour the names both of Greeks and Bomans, present a dead uniformity of abject vices, which are...humanity, nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes. The freemen of antiquity might repeat with generous enthusiasm the sentence of Homer, " that on the...

...Byzantine empire, who assume and dishonor the names both of Greeks and Romans, present a dead uniform ity of abject vices, which are neither softened by the weakness of humanity nor animated by the vigor of memorable crimes. The freemen of antiquity might repeat with generous enthusiasm the sentence...

...fancy to the gigantic size of Asia, which had been trampled under the feet of the victorious Greeks. But the subjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume...humanity nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes. The freemen of antiquity might repeat, with generous enthusiasm, the sentence of Homer, " that, on...

...task. These annals must continue to repeat a tedious and uniform tale of weakness and misery. . . . The subjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume and...humanity nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes" (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. JB Bury, vol. 5 (London, 1911], 180-81)....