The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volym 3Phillips, Sampson,, 1850 |
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Africa Alani Alaric Ambrose Ammianus ancient Antioch Arcadius archbishop Arian arms army arts Attila Augustin Barbarians bishop camp cavalry celebrated character Christian Chrysostom church civil Claudian conqueror conquest Constantinople court danger Danube death declared deserved disgrace East Eccles ecclesiastical edit emperor empire enemy Epist Etius Eunapius eunuch Eutropius faith father favor fortune Fritigern Gaul gold Gothic Goths Gratian Gregory guilt Hist historian honorable Honorius hundred Huns Idatius Imperial Italy Jerom Jornandes king laws Libanius Maximus Mém merit Milan military ministers monarch nation Orat Orosius Ostrogoths Pagan palace palace of Constantinople Panegyr passions peace perhaps person præfect prince provinces rank Ravenna reign religion republic revenge Roman Rome royal Rufinus ruin Scythia senate soldiers soon sovereign Sozomen spirit Stilicho subjects success Theodoret Theodos Theodosius thousand throne Tillemont tion treaty troops tyrant usurper Valens Valentinian valor Vandals victory virtue youth zeal Zosimus
Populära avsnitt
Sida 224 - ... oppression of the German yoke ; and the consuming flames of war spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps, and the Pyrenees, was delivered to the barbarians, who drove before them, in a promiscuous crowd, the bishop, the senator, and the virgin, laden with the spoils of their houses and altars.
Sida 639 - The abuses of tyranny are restrained by the mutual influence of fear and shame; republics have acquired order and stability; monarchies have imbibed the principles of freedom, or, at least, of moderation; and some sense of honour and justice is introduced into the most defective constitutions by the general manners of the times. 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...
Sida 285 - Roman women from the danger of a rape. But avarice is an insatiate and universal passion ; since the enjoyment of almost every object that can afford pleasure to the different tastes and tempers of mankind may be procured by the possession of wealth. In the pillage of Rome, a just preference was given to gold and jewels, which contain the greatest value in the smallest compass and weight ; but after these portable riches had been removed by the more diligent robbers, the palaces of Rome were rudely...
Sida 389 - Gothic historian, bore the stamp of his national origin ; and the portrait of Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuck; a large head, a swarthy complexion, small deepseated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short square body, of nervous strength, though of a disproportioned form.
Sida 10 - Their leaders study, in this practical school, the most important lesson of the military art; the prompt and accurate judgment of ground, of distance, and of time.
Sida 255 - Caesar and Alexander. Yet should a fly presume to settle on the silken folds of their gilded umbrellas, should a sunbeam penetrate through some unguarded and imperceptible chink, they deplore their intolerable hardships, and lament in affected language that they were not born in the land of the Cimmerians, the regions of eternal darkness.
Sida 389 - Calmuk ; a large head, a swarthy complexion, small, deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short, square body, of nervous strength, though of a disproportioned form. The haughty step and...
Sida 269 - ... credulous passion to the tale of calumny which accused her of maintaining a secret and criminal correspondence with the Gothic invader. Actuated or overawed by the same popular frenzy, the senate, without requiring any evidence of her guilt, pronounced the sentence of her death. Serena was...
Sida 193 - But the whole territory of Attica, from the promontory of Sunium to the town of Megara, was blasted by his baleful presence ; and, if we may use the comparison of a contemporary philosopher, Athens itself resembled the bleeding and empty skin of a slaughtered victim.
Sida 277 - These impending calamities were, however, averted, not indeed by the wisdom of Honorius, but by the prudence or humanity of the Gothic King; who employed a milder, though not less effectual, method of conquest. Instead of assaulting the capital, he successfully directed his efforts against the port of Ostia, one of the boldest and most stupendous works of Roman magnificence.