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... Commodus ....... 141 CHAPTER VI . THE Empire set up to Auction - Sep- timius Severus- The Boy - Emperor- The First Roman Female Sovereign- Roman Skill in Finance - The Giant Emperor -The Goths Aurelian - Queen Zenobia - Diocletian ...
... Commodus ....... 141 CHAPTER VI . THE Empire set up to Auction - Sep- timius Severus- The Boy - Emperor- The First Roman Female Sovereign- Roman Skill in Finance - The Giant Emperor -The Goths Aurelian - Queen Zenobia - Diocletian ...
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... COMMODUS . HADRIAN is generally classed as the first of the philosophi- cal Emperors ; but his genius was many - sided , and entitles him to rank with the foremost soldiers and statesmen of the Empire . His first acts were to secure the ...
... COMMODUS . HADRIAN is generally classed as the first of the philosophi- cal Emperors ; but his genius was many - sided , and entitles him to rank with the foremost soldiers and statesmen of the Empire . His first acts were to secure the ...
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... Commodus . The legions , too , by his ill - judged peace policy were kept idly loitering in their camps , till they well- nigh lost their warlike spirit , without which the empire could not be preserved long from the invasion of the ...
... Commodus . The legions , too , by his ill - judged peace policy were kept idly loitering in their camps , till they well- nigh lost their warlike spirit , without which the empire could not be preserved long from the invasion of the ...
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... Commodus with himself in the Empire . Scarcely were the last solemnities over before he was again summoned to the field and his shattered con- stitution gave way at Vindobona ( Vienna ) , in the nineteenth year of his reign and fifty ...
... Commodus with himself in the Empire . Scarcely were the last solemnities over before he was again summoned to the field and his shattered con- stitution gave way at Vindobona ( Vienna ) , in the nineteenth year of his reign and fifty ...
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... Commodus , was quite in accordance with the selfish stoicism which boasted of wrapping itself up in its virtue ; ' reckless of the iniquity in which others might in- dulge . 6 COMMODUS was only in his twentieth year when he ascended the ...
... Commodus , was quite in accordance with the selfish stoicism which boasted of wrapping itself up in its virtue ; ' reckless of the iniquity in which others might in- dulge . 6 COMMODUS was only in his twentieth year when he ascended the ...
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Page 113 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims aronnd him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 474 - is the key of heaven and of hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk; and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim.
Page 77 - Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear : 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Page 80 - Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me ; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear : and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Page 113 - And Paul said; I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 129 - LORD GOD, LAMB of GOD, SON of the FATHER, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of GOD the FATHER, have mercy upon us.
Page 220 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Page 74 - But the empire of the Romans filled the 'world, and when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies. The slave of imperial despotism, whether he was condemned to drag his gilded chain in Rome and the senate, or to wear out a life of exile on the barren rock of Seriphus, or the frozen banks of the Danube, expected his fate in silent despair. To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly.
Page 150 - If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue, this night, the line of conduct which they prescribe, some of us may live to see a reverse of that picture from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret.
Page 79 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.