Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Contury, Volume 3J. Murray, 1839 |
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Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning ..., Volume 3 Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee Visualizzazione completa - 1834 |
Parole e frasi comuni
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Brani popolari
Pagina 301 - By a philosophic observer, the system of the Roman government might have been mistaken for a splendid theatre, filled with players of every character and degree, who repeated the language, and imitated the passions, of their original...
Pagina 138 - Sacvola could not forbear to upbraid him with this memorable reproof : " That it was a shame for a patrician, a nobleman, and an orator of causes to be ignorant of that law in which he was so peculiarly concerned.
Pagina 291 - Palmyra, which for a while baffled the utmost efforts of the Roman arms. The city, however, at length surrendered, and Zenobia, attempting to escape by flight upon the back of a dromedary, was taken and conveyed a prisoner to Aurelian. He brought the captive princess to Rome, where she, together with Tetricus, graced the triumph of Aurelian; the queen bound in fetters of gold. The emperor assigned her an elegant villa, near Rome, for her residence. The Syrian queen gradually sunk into a Roman matron...
Pagina 138 - Itaque nullum emendandi genus omitto. Ac primum quae scripsi mecum ipse pertracto; deinde duobus aut tribus lego; mox aliis trado annotanda, notasque eorum, si dubito, cum uno rursus aut altero pensito; novissime pluribus recito, ac, si quid mihi credis, tunc acerrime emendo.
Pagina 123 - ... with Antony the favour of the people. The rivals soon perceived that it was their wisest plan to unite their interests ; and they admitted Lepidus into their association, whose power, as governor of Gaul, and immense riches, gave him a title to a share of authority. Thus was formed the second Triumvirate, the effects of whose union were beyond measure dreadful to the republic. The Triumviri divided among themselves the provinces, and cemented their union by a deliberate sacrifice made by each...
Pagina 307 - But not only were the proprietors of land borne down by the weight of their taxes : the burden was equally severe on all classes of the citizens. Every branch of commercial industry paid its rated tribute. All the objects of merchandise, whether of home growth or of importation, all the products of arts and manufactures, were highly taxed; and as the tribute on land was made effectual by the seizure of personal property, that on personal property was enforced by corporal punishments. The cruel treatment...
Pagina 282 - One conspiracy, at length, delivered the empire of its tyrant. His concubine Marcia, his chamberlain, and the commander of his guard, had ventured to remonstrate with him on the indecency of an emperor displaying himself as a combatant in the public games. This was an offence which could not be forgiven, and he accordingly determined their immediate destruction. Marcia found the list of his intended victims written in his own hand. She made haste to anticipate his purpose, and caused this worthless...
Pagina 144 - Mundus caeli vastus constitit silentio ; Et Neptunus saevus undis asperis pausam dedit : Sol equis iter repressit ungulis volantibus : Constitere amnes perennes, arbores vento vacant.
Pagina 55 - Saepe ex socero meo audivi, cum is diceret socerum suum Laelium semper fere cum Scipione solitum rusticari eosque incredibiliter repuerascere esse solitos, cum rus ex urbe, tanquam e vinculis, evolavissent. Non audeo dicere de talibus viris, sed tamen ita solet narrare Scaevola, conchas eos et umbilicos ad Caietam et ad Laurentum legere consuesse, et ad omnem animi remissionem ludumque • Vitam nullam corresponds to the Platonic /Ji'ov ov jiuurov (Apol.
Pagina 164 - You admire," says Pliny to Macer, " the works of my uncle, and wish to have a complete collection of them ; I will point out to you the order in which they were composed : for, however immaterial that may seem, it is a sort of information not at all unacceptable to men of letters. The first book he published was a treatise concerning the art of throwing the Javelin on Horseback. This he wrote when he commanded a troop of horse, and it is drawn up with great accuracy and judgment. He next published...