The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 4Methuen & Company, 1911 |
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Africa Agathias Alemanni alliance ambition Anastasius ancient Anthemius Arian arms army arts Avitus Barbarians battle Belisarius bishop Boethius Burgundians Cæsar captives Carthage Cassiodorius Catholic century Christian Chron church clergy Clovis command conqueror conquest Constantinople danger death dominion edit emperor enemy Ennodius epistle exile faith favour Franks Gaul Gelimer Genseric gold Gothic Goths Greek Gregory of Tours Hist historian honour hundred Imperial Italy John Malala Jornandes Justinian king kingdom labour Latin laws liberal Majorian Marcellinus Mém merit Merovingian military monarch monasteries monks nation native Odoacer oppressed Ostrogoths palace patrician Patrum peace perhaps Persian philosopher præfect prince Procopius provinces Ravenna reign religion restored Ricimer Roman Rome royal ruin savage Saxons senate Sidonius siege soldiers soon Spain spirit subjects success successors Suevi Theodoric Theophanes thousand throne Tillemont tion Totila troops valour Vandals victory virtue Visigoths Western empire zeal Zeno
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Página 435 - Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the Code, the Pandects, and the Institutions : the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transfused into the domestic institutions of Europe, and the laws of Justinian still command the respect or obedience of independent nations.
Página 197 - Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit, from the barbarism of the times, and the situation of the author.
Página 162 - In peace, the progress of knowledge and industry is accelerated by the emulation of so many active rivals: in war, the European forces are exercised by temperate and undecisive contests.
Página 265 - I regret this chronology, so far preferable to our double and perplexed method of counting backwards and forwards the years before and after the Christian era...
Página 90 - This supernatural gift of the African confessors, who spoke without tongues, will command the assent of those, and of those only, who already believe that their language was pure and orthodox. But the stubborn mind of an infidel is guarded by secret incurable suspicion; and the Arian, or Socinian, who has seriously rejected the doctrine of the Trinity, will not be shaken by the most plausible evidence of an Athanasian miracle.
Página 157 - And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters...
Página 157 - The rise of a city, which swelled into an empire, may deserve, as a singular prodigy, the reflection of a philosophic mind. But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay ; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight.
Página 156 - THE Greeks, after their country had been reduced into a province, imputed the triumphs of Rome, not to the merit, but to the FORTUNE, of the republic.
Página 158 - ... afterwards violated the majesty of the purple. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered them alike formidable to their sovereign and to the enemy; the vigor of the military government was relaxed and finally dissolved by the partial institutions of Constantine; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of barbarians.
Página 199 - Humanity will be disposed to encourage any report which testifies the jurisdiction of conscience and the remorse of kings; and philosophy is not ignorant that the most horrid spectres are sometimes created by the powers of a disordered fancy, and the weakness of a distempered body. After a life of virtue and glory, Theodoric was now descending with shame and guilt into the grave: his mind was humbled by the contrast of the past, and justly alarmed by the invisible terrors of futurity. One evening,...