 ... shirts,* and set on fire when the day closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock Circensian entertainment ; being a spectator of the whole,...  The Cap of liberty - Page 1221820Full view - About this book
 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 436 pages
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions ; and exhibited at the same time a mock...with the crowd on foot, and sometimes viewing the spectacles from his car. This conduct made the sufferers pitied ; and though they were criminals, and... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 388 pages
...Test. vol. ip 359. might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock...with the crowd on foot, and sometimes viewing the spectacles from his car. This conduct made the sufferers pitied; and though they were criminals, and... | |
 | William Paley - Apologetics - 1818 - 796 pages
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock...pitied ; and though they were criminals, and deserving the severest punishments, yet they were considered as sacrificed, not so much out of a regard to the... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1823 - 396 pages
...serve as lights to illuminate the uight. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhihited at the same time a mock Circensian entertainment ;...pitied ; and though they were criminals, and deserving the severest punishments, yet they were considered as sacrificed, not so much out of a regard to the... | |
 | William Paley - Apologetics - 1824 - 426 pages
...closed. that thev might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock...from his car. This conduct made the sufferers pitied ; andthough they were criminals, and deservmg the severest punish-, ments, yet they were considered... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 408 pages
...ctosed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock...and sometimes viewing the spectacle from his car. Thia conduct made the sufferers pitied ; and though they were criminals, and deservmg the severest... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1825 - 454 pages
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock...pitied; and though they were criminals, and deserving the severest punishments, yet they were considered as sacrificed, not so much out of a regard to the... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - Bible - 1825 - 478 pages
...cera supervestiebat, et sic ad ignem admoveri jubebat." Lard. Jewish and Heath. Test. vol. ip 350. being a spectator of the whole, in the dress of a...pitied ; and though they were criminals, and deserving the severest punishments, yet they were considered as sacrificed, not so much out of a regard to the... | |
 | William Malkin - Christianity - 1825 - 504 pages
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock Circensian entertainment ; being a spectator of.the whole in the dress of a charioteer ; sometimes mingling with the crowd on foot, and sometimes... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1828 - 610 pages
...closed, thai they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his owr gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock...pitied ; and though they were criminals, and deserving the severest punishments, yet they were considered as sacrificed, not so much out of a regard to the... | |
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