The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 2Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, 1806 |
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... Conquest 271 More liberal Zeal of Christianity 273 Obstinacy and Reasons of the believing Jews 275 The · · Their Religion better suited to Defence than to A.D. The Nazarene Church of Jerusalem The Ebionites The Gnostics CONTENTS .
... Conquest 271 More liberal Zeal of Christianity 273 Obstinacy and Reasons of the believing Jews 275 The · · Their Religion better suited to Defence than to A.D. The Nazarene Church of Jerusalem The Ebionites The Gnostics CONTENTS .
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... conquests . The old country of that name detained , however , a considerable number of its inhabitants , who dreaded exile more than a Gothic master * . These degenerate Romans continued to serve the empire , whose allegiance they had ...
... conquests . The old country of that name detained , however , a considerable number of its inhabitants , who dreaded exile more than a Gothic master * . These degenerate Romans continued to serve the empire , whose allegiance they had ...
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... conquest of Egypt , Zosimus , 1. i . p . 39 , 40 . Timolaus , Herennianus , and Vaballathus . It is supposed that the two former were already dead before the war . On the last , Aurelian bestowed a small province of Armenia , with the ...
... conquest of Egypt , Zosimus , 1. i . p . 39 , 40 . Timolaus , Herennianus , and Vaballathus . It is supposed that the two former were already dead before the war . On the last , Aurelian bestowed a small province of Armenia , with the ...
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... conquest of Egypt . The nume- rous forces of Zenobia consisted for the most part of light archers , and of heavy cavalry clothed in complete steel . The Moorish and Illyrian horse of Aurelian were unable to sustain the ponderous charge ...
... conquest of Egypt . The nume- rous forces of Zenobia consisted for the most part of light archers , and of heavy cavalry clothed in complete steel . The Moorish and Illyrian horse of Aurelian were unable to sustain the ponderous charge ...
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... conquest of Egypt . It was then that Zenobia resolved to fly . She mounted the fleet- est of her dromedaries * , and had already reached the banks of the Euphrates , about sixty miles from Palmyra , when she was overtaken by the pursuit ...
... conquest of Egypt . It was then that Zenobia resolved to fly . She mounted the fleet- est of her dromedaries * , and had already reached the banks of the Euphrates , about sixty miles from Palmyra , when she was overtaken by the pursuit ...
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Africa Alemanni ambition ancient Armenia arms army arts Asia August Aurelian Aurelius Victor barbarians Britain C H A Cæsar camp Carausius Carinus Carus celebrated CHAP Christian Chron church civil Claudius command conduct conqueror conquest Constantine danger Danube death defence deserved dignity Diocle Diocletian discover East Egypt emperor empire enemy esteem Eumenius Eutrop Eutropius expence father favour fortune frontier Galerius Gallienus Gaul Goths honour hundred Illyricum Imperial Italy Lactantius Lactantius de M. P. legions Licinius magnificent Maxentius Maximian ment merit military monarch Narses nature Numerian occasion Odenathus orator Palmyra Panegyr peace Persian person præfect Prætorian princes Probus provinces purple racter rank received reign restored Rhine rians Roman world Rome Sarmatians senate soldiers soon sovereign success successor Tacitus Tetricus thousand throne tian Tillemont tion Tiridates triumph troops usurper valour vanquished Victor Junior Vopiscus in Hist Zenobia Zonaras Zosimus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 269 - And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Seite 263 - While that great body," he observes, " was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour from opposition, and finally erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins of the Capitol.
Seite 264 - Our curiosity is naturally prompted to inquire by what means the Christian faith obtained so remarkable a victory over the established religions of the earth. To this inquiry an obvious but satisfactory answer may be returned ; that it was owing to the convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and to the ruling providence of its great Author.
Seite 288 - ... circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or of private life; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without, at the same time, renouncing the commerce of mankind and all the offices and amusements of society.
Seite 40 - Rome, and flourished more than one hundred and fifty years in the subordinate though honorable rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if we may judge from a few remaining inscriptions, that the wealthy Palmyrenians constructed those temples, palaces, and porticos of Grecian architecture, whose ruins, scattered over an extent of several miles, have deserved the curiosity of our travellers.
Seite 273 - It became the most sacred duty of a new convert to diffuse among his friends and relations the inestimable blessing which he had received, and to warn them against a refusal that would be severely punished as a criminal disobedience to the will of a benevolent but all-powerful deity.
Seite 316 - Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. As the greater number were of some trade or profession, it was incumbent on them, by the strictest integrity and the fairest dealing, to remove the suspicions which the profane are too apt to conceive against the appearances of sanctity. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience.
Seite 329 - ... of collecting the sentiments, and of executing the resolutions, of the assembly. A regard for the public tranquillity, which would so frequently have been interrupted by annual or by occasional elections, induced the primitive Christians to constitute an honourable and perpetual magistracy, and to choose one of the wisest and.
Seite 299 - ... was permitted to subsist in the church, it was productive of the most salutary effects on the faith and practice of Christians, who lived in the awful expectation of that moment when the globe itself, and all the various race of mankind, should tremble at the appearance of their divine Judge.
Seite 329 - The public functions of religion were solely intrusted to the established ministers of the church, the bishops and the presbyters; two appellations which, in their first origin, appear to have distinguished the same office and the same order of persons.