Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Volumen 3J. Murray, 1835 |
Términos y frases comunes
Africa ambition amongst ancient Antony arms Augustus authority battle besiegers bestowed body Caligula Carthage Carthaginians Cato character Cicero citizens Claudius command commonwealth conduct conquest Constantine consul corruption decree defeated Diocletian Dionysius disposition effect emperor endeavoured enemy engagement excellent fate favour favourite fortune friends Galerius Gaul gave genius Greece Greek Hannibal happiness hastati honour illustrious Italy Jugurtha Julian Julius Cæsar laws legions liberty likewise luxury magistrates manners Marius Mark Antony Maximian measure ment military mind nations nature Nero Octavius patriotism peace period philosopher Pliny political Pompey possessed prætor prefect prince provinces Punic put to death Pyrrhus quincunx rank Regulus reign republic rival Roman army Roman empire Roman republic Rome Samnites Scipio Sejanus senate Severus Sicily soldiers soon Spain spirit success Sylla Syracuse talents Tiberius tion took Trajan triarii tribunes troops Varro Vespasian victory virtue virtuous whole
Pasajes populares
Página 269 - Equidem beatos puto, quibus deorum munere datum est aut facere scribenda aut scribere legenda, beatissimos vero, quibus utrumque.
Página 283 - The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves as the accountable ministers of the laws. Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic, had the Romans of their days been capable of enjoying a rational...
Página 168 - Such was his manner of life amidst the noise and hurry of the town ; but in the country his whole time was devoted to study, without intermission, excepting only when he bathed.
Página 229 - ... adjust his innovations as much as possible to the ancient fabric, and preserve entire the chief pillars and supports of the constitution.
Página 317 - ... hero ; that they gently interrupted his slumbers by touching his hand or his hair ; that they warned him of every impending danger, and conducted him, by their infallible wisdom, in every action of his life...
Página 229 - An established government has an infinite advantage by that very circumstance of its being established ; the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to any thing that has not the recommendation of antiquity. To tamper, therefore, in this affair...
Página 303 - 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...
Página 167 - ... and some of them too upon abstruse subjects. But your surprise will rise still higher, when you hear, that, for some time, he engaged in the profession of an advocate; that he died in his fifty-sixth year...
Página 293 - 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...
Página 140 - Sca;vola, the then oracle of the Roman law, but for want of some knowledge in that science, could not so much as understand even the technical terms which his friend was obliged to make use of. Upon which...