A New Universal Biography, Containing Interesting Accounts, Bind 2Sherwood, Jones, and Company, 1825 |
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... throne . Nero , however , discarded Pallas , and some time after caused him to be put to death , that he might procure his great riches . NARCISSUS , a freedman , and secretary of Claudius , who abused his trust , and the infirmities of ...
... throne . Nero , however , discarded Pallas , and some time after caused him to be put to death , that he might procure his great riches . NARCISSUS , a freedman , and secretary of Claudius , who abused his trust , and the infirmities of ...
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... throne , he suffered himself to be governed by favourites , who oppressed the citizens . Exemptions were sold at a high price ; and impunity even for murder was pur- chased with money . Such irregularities greatly displeased the people ...
... throne , he suffered himself to be governed by favourites , who oppressed the citizens . Exemptions were sold at a high price ; and impunity even for murder was pur- chased with money . Such irregularities greatly displeased the people ...
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... throne of Armenia . He also subdued the Parthians . Nero , jealous of his reputation , di- rected him to be murdered ; Corbulo hearing of it , fell upon his own sword , A.D. 67 . CAIUS PISO , a Roman , who was at the head of a cele ...
... throne of Armenia . He also subdued the Parthians . Nero , jealous of his reputation , di- rected him to be murdered ; Corbulo hearing of it , fell upon his own sword , A.D. 67 . CAIUS PISO , a Roman , who was at the head of a cele ...
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... throne ; Vespasian declared for Vitellius , who , by Otho's death , was left in possession of the throne . But the new emperor was both hated and despised ; and Vespasian's reputation was so generally acknowledged in the East , that in ...
... throne ; Vespasian declared for Vitellius , who , by Otho's death , was left in possession of the throne . But the new emperor was both hated and despised ; and Vespasian's reputation was so generally acknowledged in the East , that in ...
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... throne , has handed her name down to posterity , as a female justly to be admired for conjugal love . Sabinus , which was the name of Eponia's husband , found that the army which he commanded was un- faithful to his cause , for ...
... throne , has handed her name down to posterity , as a female justly to be admired for conjugal love . Sabinus , which was the name of Eponia's husband , found that the army which he commanded was un- faithful to his cause , for ...
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Side 60 - And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with : but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
Side 336 - Attila, the son of Mundzuk, deduced his noble, perhaps his regal, descent* from the ancient Huns, who had formerly contended with the monarchs of China. His features, according to the observation of a Gothic historian, bore the stamp of his national origin; and the portrait of Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuck ;* a large head, a swarthy complexion, small deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short square body, of nervous...
Side 138 - Cicero, formed his taste, enlarged his understanding, and gave him the noblest ideas of man and government. The exercises of the body succeeded to those of the mind; and Alexander, who was tall, active, and robust, surpassed most of his equals in the gymnastic arts.
Side 404 - When they had solemnly engaged to do all this, Mohammed sent one of his disciples, named Masab Ebn Omair, home with them, to instruct them more fully in the grounds and ceremonies of his new religion. Masab, being arrived at Medina, by the assistance of those who had been formerly converted, gained several proselytes, particularly...
Side 398 - I know no man in all Arabia who can offer his kindred a more excellent thing than I now do you; I offer you happiness both in this life, and in that which is to come: God Almighty hath commanded me to call you unto him; who, therefore, among you will be assisting to me herein, and become my brother, and my vicegerent?
Side 60 - And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying ; All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them ; Be not afraid ; go, tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
Side 171 - He laid down two principles, the one good, the other evil ; between these he imagined an intermediate kind of Deity, of a mixed nature, who was the Creator of this inferior world, and the god and legislator of the Jewish nation : the other nations, who worshipped a variety of gods, were supposed to be under the empire of the evil principle.
Side 397 - After he began by this advantageous match to live at his ease, it was, that he formed the scheme of establishing a new religion, or, as he expressed it, of replanting the only true and ancient one, professed by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and all the prophets...
Side 253 - ... reserved for his rival and colleague, Maximus, the first, among the Christian princes, who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions.
Side 400 - ... sayings, as his followers have since done ; and seeing he all along disclaimed any power of performing miracles, it seems rather to have been a fetch of policy to raise his reputation, by pretending to have actually conversed with GOD in heaven, as Moses had heretofore done in the mount, and to have received several institutions immediately from him, whereas before he contented himself with persuading them that he had all by the ministry of Gabriel.