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... Agrippina , the widow of Germanicus , an eminent woman , wished , according to Roman practice , to starve herself to death ; but the emperor ordered her mouth to be forced open , and food to be thrust down her throat , though some time ...
... Agrippina , the widow of Germanicus , an eminent woman , wished , according to Roman practice , to starve herself to death ; but the emperor ordered her mouth to be forced open , and food to be thrust down her throat , though some time ...
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... Agrippina , and his brother Drusus , were murdered by Tiberius , he did not utter one word of compassion or sorrow ; and he concealed his own selfishness under a veil of so much modesty , that a famous orator said of him , " There never ...
... Agrippina , and his brother Drusus , were murdered by Tiberius , he did not utter one word of compassion or sorrow ; and he concealed his own selfishness under a veil of so much modesty , that a famous orator said of him , " There never ...
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... Agrippina , who was proud , ambitious , and cruel . She treated the emperor so ill , and forced him to so many acts of tyranny , that one day , after drinking a great deal of wine , he was heard to say , " It seems always my fate to ...
... Agrippina , who was proud , ambitious , and cruel . She treated the emperor so ill , and forced him to so many acts of tyranny , that one day , after drinking a great deal of wine , he was heard to say , " It seems always my fate to ...
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... Agrippina soon after married the emperor Claudius , who was of such a very weak mind that she governed him entirely ... Agrippina insisted that he should prefer Nero , and astonished the Romans by making Claudius declare that her son was ...
... Agrippina soon after married the emperor Claudius , who was of such a very weak mind that she governed him entirely ... Agrippina insisted that he should prefer Nero , and astonished the Romans by making Claudius declare that her son was ...
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... Agrippina replied , " Let Nero kill me , provided I but live to see him an emperor . " She would have laid down her own life , and she committed many dreadful crimes , to make Nero great , but she could never make him happy . Agrippina ...
... Agrippina replied , " Let Nero kill me , provided I but live to see him an emperor . " She would have laid down her own life , and she committed many dreadful crimes , to make Nero great , but she could never make him happy . Agrippina ...
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Seite 99 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Seite 111 - I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them, also, that love His appearing.
Seite 152 - And just as he added at the last, "Woe, woe to myself also!
Seite 20 - Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them ; he came not to curse, but to bless us, by turning away every one of us from his iniquities.
Seite 122 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Seite 106 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Seite 180 - ... spite, however, of the edicts of the governing powers and the violence of the mob, the new faith continued to make progress. For some years prior to 1590, 10,000 natives were, it was reckoned, annually gained over to Christianity; and the state of affairs certainly seemed to prove the truth of the saying that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Seite 65 - O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?
Seite 180 - In the general, that there shall be such a happy period as the millennium, that ' the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High,' Dan. vii. 27. that Christ shall have ' the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession,
Seite 106 - Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you. All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.