The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 6J. & J. Harper, 1826 - Byzantine Empire |
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... friends blushed , and his apology was slow and un- satisfactory . He justifies his obedience to the commands of the pope ; expatiates on the mysterious ways of providence ; imputes the misfortunes of the pilgrims to their own sins ; and ...
... friends blushed , and his apology was slow and un- satisfactory . He justifies his obedience to the commands of the pope ; expatiates on the mysterious ways of providence ; imputes the misfortunes of the pilgrims to their own sins ; and ...
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... friends to a grievous indisposition , was accused by his enemies as a voluntary and obstinate dis- 87 This simple idea is agreeable to the good sense of Mosheim ( Institut . Hist . Eccless . p . 332 , ) and the fine philosophy of Hume ...
... friends to a grievous indisposition , was accused by his enemies as a voluntary and obstinate dis- 87 This simple idea is agreeable to the good sense of Mosheim ( Institut . Hist . Eccless . p . 332 , ) and the fine philosophy of Hume ...
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... friendship or kin- dred , could save the victims of national hatred , and avarice , and religious zeal : the Latins ... friends On their return , they exposed to Italy and Europe the wealth and weakness , the perfidy and malice , of the ...
... friendship or kin- dred , could save the victims of national hatred , and avarice , and religious zeal : the Latins ... friends On their return , they exposed to Italy and Europe the wealth and weakness , the perfidy and malice , of the ...
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... friends would have left him , naked and alone , to the caprice and prejudice of a perfidious nation . He wished to bribe their stay , the delay of a year , by undertaking to defray their expense , and to satisfy , in their name , the ...
... friends would have left him , naked and alone , to the caprice and prejudice of a perfidious nation . He wished to bribe their stay , the delay of a year , by undertaking to defray their expense , and to satisfy , in their name , the ...
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... friends , found an obscure shelter in another house which he possessed near the church of St. Sophia . It was the door of this mean habitation that his friend the Venetian merchant guarded in the disguise of a sol- dier , till Nicetas ...
... friends , found an obscure shelter in another house which he possessed near the church of St. Sophia . It was the door of this mean habitation that his friend the Venetian merchant guarded in the disguise of a sol- dier , till Nicetas ...
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Page 559 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea...
Page 543 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 498 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 497 - A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men.
Page 565 - ... and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.
Page 549 - The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise ; many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull Chronicle and a Rhetorical declamation ; three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect.
Page 550 - By such men every operation of peace and war, every principle of justice or policy, every question of authority and freedom, was attacked and defended ; and the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a school of civil prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian.
Page 523 - I need not blush at recollecting the object of my choice ; and though my love was disappointed of success, I am rather proud that I was once capable of feeling such a pure and exalted sentiment.
Page 509 - Scholars : in a Society where emulation without envy, ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity, incited industry, and awakened genius ; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a generous freedom of thought, was raised, encouraged, and pushed forward, by example, by commendation, and by authority.
Page 313 - Mahomet has been separately noticed; an important and visible object in the history of the times: but that enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude: the long order of the Turkish artillery was pointed against the walls; fourteen batteries thundered at once on the most accessible places; and of one of these it is ambiguously expressed that it was mounted with one hundred and thirty guns, or that it discharged one hundred and thirty bullets.