The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Part 1,Volum 19Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) |
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Pàgina 3
... died at above sixty years old , and had reigned above thirty years . CONSTANTINE'S SONS . - After the death of Constantine , the army and senate proclaimed his three sons emperors , without taking any no- tice of Dalmatius , and ...
... died at above sixty years old , and had reigned above thirty years . CONSTANTINE'S SONS . - After the death of Constantine , the army and senate proclaimed his three sons emperors , without taking any no- tice of Dalmatius , and ...
Pàgina 6
... died . After the battle Julian advanced with all his army to Mayence , where he built a bridge over the Rhine , and , having with difficulty prevailed upon his army to follow him , entered Germany . Here he ravaged the country , till ...
... died . After the battle Julian advanced with all his army to Mayence , where he built a bridge over the Rhine , and , having with difficulty prevailed upon his army to follow him , entered Germany . Here he ravaged the country , till ...
Pàgina 11
... died at Milan on the 17th January 395 , in the sixteenth year of his reign and fiftieth of his age . PART IV . THE WESTERN EMPIRE . We now trace , distinctly , the regular and ra- pid decline of the Western Empire . The death of ...
... died at Milan on the 17th January 395 , in the sixteenth year of his reign and fiftieth of his age . PART IV . THE WESTERN EMPIRE . We now trace , distinctly , the regular and ra- pid decline of the Western Empire . The death of ...
Pàgina 14
... dying soon after , he forced the empress Eu- doxia to marry him . Eudoxia , who had ten- derly loved Valentinian ... died soon after his accession . On his death Glycerius usurped the empire . He was deposed in 474 , and Julius Nepos ...
... dying soon after , he forced the empress Eu- doxia to marry him . Eudoxia , who had ten- derly loved Valentinian ... died soon after his accession . On his death Glycerius usurped the empire . He was deposed in 474 , and Julius Nepos ...
Pàgina 15
... died in 491 , in the sixty - fifth year of his age , and seventeenth of his reign . The Roman empire had long been on the decline , before it fell a prey to the Goths . The ancient valor and military discipline , which had rendered the ...
... died in 491 , in the sixty - fifth year of his age , and seventeenth of his reign . The Roman empire had long been on the decline , before it fell a prey to the Goths . The ancient valor and military discipline , which had rendered the ...
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Pàgina 62 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Pàgina 75 - And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Pàgina 62 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Pàgina 194 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Pàgina 17 - Arras, Amiens, experienced the cruel oppression of the German yoke; and the consuming flames of war spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps, and the Pyrenees, was delivered to the Barbarians, who drove before them, in a promiscuous crowd, the bishop, the senator, and the virgin, laden with the spoils of their houses and altars.
Pàgina 349 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Pàgina 64 - Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear, And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell; He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
Pàgina 272 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our neelds created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and mind», Had been incorporate.
Pàgina 17 - This scene of peace and plenty was suddenly changed into a desert; and the prospect of the smoking ruins could alone distinguish the solitude of nature from the desolation of man.
Pàgina 351 - Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath.