| Thomas Paine - 1810 - 504 pagine
...with exquisite cruelty; and to their suffering Nero added mockery and derision. Some were covered with skins of wild beasts, and left to be devoured by dogs...covered over with inflammable matter, were lighted up, when the day declined, to serve as torches during the night. " For the convenicnce of seeing this... | |
| John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pagine
...of burning the city, as for their enmity to mankind. They were put to death with exquisite cruelty, and to their sufferings Nero added mockery and derision....cross ; numbers were burnt alive ; and many covered with inflammable matter, were lighted up, when the day declined, to serve as torches during the night.... | |
| John Jones - 1820 - 238 pagine
...clause of the former, toto corpore tormenta patienda stint, is explained by the latter to mean that they were covered. with the skins of wild beasts and left to be devoured by dogs, or covered over with inflammable matter to serve as torches for the night. The Roman historian is express... | |
| Maria Hack - 1824 - 344 pagine
...of ' their sullen hatred to the whole human ' race. They were put to death with ex'quisite cruelty, and to their sufferings ' Nero added mockery and derision....'dogs; others were nailed to the cross; ' numbers were burned alive; and many, ' covered over with inflammable matter, ' were lighted up, when the day declined,... | |
| Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831 - 410 pagine
...account of their sullen hatred of the whole human race.1 They were put to death with exquisite cruelty, and to their sufferings Nero added mockery and derision....burnt alive ; and many, covered over with inflammable matslaves to be put to the torture, but he could discover nothing more than a rooted and excessive... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 pagine
...Christ, " they were put to death," according to the description of Tacitus, " with exquisite cruelty ; and to their, sufferings Nero added mockery and derision....cross; numbers were burnt alive ; and many covered with inflammable matter, (flatne,) were lighted up, when the day declined, to serve as torches during... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 pagine
...Christ, " they were put to death," according to the description of Tacitus, " with exquisite cruelty ; and to their sufferings Nero added mockery and derision....cross ; numbers were burnt alive ; and many covered with inflammable matter (flame), were lighted up, when the day declined, to serve as • Pliny's Letter... | |
| Cornelius Tacitus - 1836 - 780 pagine
...account of their sullen hatred of the whole human race. ' They were put to death with exquisite cruelty, and to their sufferings Nero added mockery and derision....burnt alive ; and many, covered over with inflammable matto fatiify their word, nor deny a trial reputed in them ; alter which it was their custom to separate,... | |
| John Rolph - 1837 - 44 pagine
...were put to death, according to Tacitus, with exqnisite cruelty ; and to their sufferings the Emperor added mockery and derision. Some were covered with the skins of wild heasts and left to he devoured hy tiogs; others were naileil to the cross; numhers were hurnt ahve... | |
| 1840 - 598 pagine
...punishment a set of men whom the populace detested for their evil practices, and vulgarly called Christians. Some were covered with the skins of wild beasts, and...covered over with inflammable matter, were lighted up when the day declined, to serve as torches during the night; for the convenience of seeing this... | |
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