 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...meanest of his servants. The majesty of a parent was armed with the power of life and death * ; and the examples of such bloody executions, which were...illustrious citizen from the bonds of filial subjection: his own descendants were included in the family of their common ancestor ; and the claims of adoption... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - Constitutional history - 1838 - 674 pages
...the meanest of his servants. The majesty of a parent was armed with the power of life and death"; and the examples of such bloody executions, which were...illustrious citizen from the bonds of filial subjection ": his own descendants were included in the family of their common ancestor ; and the claims of adoption... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...his servants. The majesty of a parent was armed with the power of life and death ; and the example of such bloody executions, which were sometimes praised...of Rome, beyond the times of Pompey and Augustus. " The exposition of children was the prevailing and stubborn vice of antiquity : it was sometimes prescribed,... | |
 | William Knighton - Sri Lanka - 1845 - 424 pages
...such regulations with those of ancient Rome, we cannot but yield superiority to the former. There, " neither age, nor rank, nor the consular office, nor...illustrious citizen from the bonds of filial subjection *." In the marriages and divorces, as appointed by the laws of Ceylon, we shall find much to censure.... | |
 | William Hague - Slavery - 1847 - 66 pages
...his servants. The majesty of a parent was armed with the power of life and death ; and the example of such bloody executions which were sometimes praised...annals of Rome beyond the times of Pompey and Augustus. Without fear, though not without danger of abuse, the Roman legislators had reposed an unbounded confidence... | |
 | 1851 - 56 pages
...with the power of life and death ; and the example of such bloody executions which were some times praised, and never punished, may be traced in the annals of Rome, beyond the time of Pornpey and Augustus. Without fear, though not without danger of abuse, the Roman legislators... | |
 | G. F. Burckhardt - 1852 - 442 pages
...©onbtrima,aroörter either, or ifl). He is neither avaricious, nor prodigal. Neither do I envy, nor hate them. Neither age, nor rank, nor the consular office, nor...illustrious citizen from the bonds of filial subjection. ©фНе§1 рф ein »ernemenbeá $ürmort einem fo »erneinten ©liebe an, fo mu§ bafür baê еп1[ргефепЬе... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 440 pages
...meanest of his servants. The majesty of a parent was armed with the power of life and death ; 106 and the examples of such bloody executions, which were...illustrious citizen from the bonds of filial subjection : 107 his own descendants were included in the family of their common ancestor ; and the claims of... | |
 | Jonas Hartzel - History - 1854 - 340 pages
...of his servants. The majesty of a parent was armed with the power of life and death; and the example of such bloody executions, which were sometimes praised...Neither age, nor rank, nor the consular office, nor the honors of a triumph, could exempt the most illustrious citizen from the bonds of filial subjection:... | |
 | Jonas Hartzel - History - 1854 - 330 pages
...armed with the power of life and death; and the example of such bloody executions, which were sdmetimes praised and never punished, may be traced in the annals...Neither age, nor rank, nor the consular office, nor the honors of a triumph, could exempt the most illustrious citizen from" the bonds of filial subjection:... | |
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According to his discretion, a father might chastise the real or imaginary faults of his children, by stripes, by imprisonment, by exile, by sending them to the country to work in chains among the meanest of his servants. The majesty of a parent was armed... 
