The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, 第 5 巻Longman, 1811 |
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A. D. Roman Emperors account of Ecclesiastical Acilius Ælius Agrippa Agrippina Albinus Alexandria ancient Annal Annius Antony Asia Augustus Aurel Aurelius banished bishop Cæcilius Metellus Caius Calends Caligula Calpurnius Capitolinus Cassius christians church of St Commodus Constantius Consuls Consuls Annually arranged Corn Cornelius Cossus Crassus daughter death Decius defeated died Dioclesian Domitian Domitius Drusus Ecclesiastical Affairs Egypt elected Emilianus empire Fabius Maximus Fidenas Flaccus Fulvius Galerius Gallienus Gallus Gauls Germanicus Greece Greeks Ides Impl Jews Julia Julianus Julius Cæsar Julius Iulus Junius Silanus king Lentulus Licinius Lucius Mamercinus Manlius Marcus Marius Mark Antony married Maximian Messala Messalina Names of Consuls Nepos Nero Nerva Octavius Papirius Persian Piso Pompey Pope Postumius Potitus Priscus province Publicola Quintius reign Rome Rufus Scipio Sempronius Servilius Sesac Severus Silanus slain Suet Sulpicius Sylla Synod Syria Tacit temple Tiberius Valer Valerius Verus Vespasian Vitellius Volsci wife
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231 ページ - And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
228 ページ - The earth was at first without form, and void ; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
312 ページ - Spain, by a very singular fatality, was the Peru and Mexico of the old world. The discovery of the rich western continent by the Phoenicians, and the oppression of the simple natives, who were compelled to labour in their own mines for the benefit of strangers, form an exact type of the more recent history of Spanish America.
330 ページ - But the temper, as well as knowledge, of a modern historian require a more sober and accurate language. He may impress a juster image of the greatness of Rome, by observing that the empire was above two thousand miles in breadth, from the wall of Antoninus and the northern limits of Dacia, to mount Atlas and the tropic of Cancer; that it extended, in length, more than three thousand miles, from...
183 ページ - Having obtained the sovereign power, he threw off the mask, and showed himself a monster of vice and cruelty. He wished with impious arrogance to be worshipped as a god, and was at the same time a tyrant of savage ferocity, the scourge of human kind. His delight in blood was so keen and ardent, that he was often heard to express his wish, that the Roman people had but one neck, that he might at a blow destroy the whole race.
319 ページ - In their original state of independence, their fierce inhabitants were intimately connected. Under the Roman government they were frequently united, and they still remain the patrimony of a single family. They now contain the residence of a German prince, who styles himself Emperor of the Romans, and form the centre, as well as strength, of the Austrian power.
251 ページ - The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended, to which is prefixed, a Short Chronicle from the first memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia, by Alexander the Great.
228 ページ - Then appeared the sea, and the dry land. The mountains rose ; and the rivers flowed. The sun and moon began their course in the skies. Herbs and plants clothed the ground. The air, the earth, and the waters were stored with their respective inhabitants. At last, man was made after the image of God...
313 ページ - Phoenicians were acquainted only with the sea-coast of Spain; avarice, as well as ambition, carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country, and almost every part of the soil was found pregnant with copper, silver, and gold.