The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 7Thomas M'Lean, 1827 |
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Page 39
... natural antipathy of the horse for the camel is affirmed by the ancients ( Xenophon . Cyropæd . 1. vi . p . 438 ; 1. vii . p . 483 , 492 , edit . Hutchinson . Polyæn . Stratagem . vii . 6. Plin . Hist . Nat . viii . 26. Ælian . de Natur ...
... natural antipathy of the horse for the camel is affirmed by the ancients ( Xenophon . Cyropæd . 1. vi . p . 438 ; 1. vii . p . 483 , 492 , edit . Hutchinson . Polyæn . Stratagem . vii . 6. Plin . Hist . Nat . viii . 26. Ælian . de Natur ...
Page 46
... nature of her son and his sub- jects . On a solemn festival , when the Goths were assembled in the palace of Ravenna , the royal youth escaped from his mother's apartment , and , with tears of pride and anger , complained of a blow ...
... nature of her son and his sub- jects . On a solemn festival , when the Goths were assembled in the palace of Ravenna , the royal youth escaped from his mother's apartment , and , with tears of pride and anger , complained of a blow ...
Page 90
... of human nature . Procopius , in his Anec- dotes , has assumed that servile and ungrateful office . The generous reader may cast away the libel , but the evidence of facts will adhere to his memory ; 90 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
... of human nature . Procopius , in his Anec- dotes , has assumed that servile and ungrateful office . The generous reader may cast away the libel , but the evidence of facts will adhere to his memory ; 90 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
Page 93
... nature , from which he receives no real injury ; but contemptible is the husband who feels , and yet endures , his own infamy in that of his wife . Antonina pursued her son with implacable hatred ; and the gallant Photius † was exposed ...
... nature , from which he receives no real injury ; but contemptible is the husband who feels , and yet endures , his own infamy in that of his wife . Antonina pursued her son with implacable hatred ; and the gallant Photius † was exposed ...
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... nature , and revealed to Belisarius the turpitude of a woman who had violated all the du- ties of a mother and a wife . From the surprise and indignation of the Roman general , his former cre- dulity appears to have been sincere : he ...
... nature , and revealed to Belisarius the turpitude of a woman who had violated all the du- ties of a mother and a wife . From the surprise and indignation of the Roman general , his former cre- dulity appears to have been sincere : he ...
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