A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From the triumvirate of Tiberius Gracchus to the fall of the Roman empireWalton and Maberly, 1866 |
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Agrippa Agrippina amidst ancient Antioch Antony Armenia Arminius army Asia Augustus Aurelius barbarians battle brother Brutus Cæsar Caius Caligula called camp Cassius cavalry character Cherusci chief Christian Cicero citizens civil Claudius Cleopatra command Commodus Constantine consul consulship Crassus Danube defeated Diocletian Domitian Drusus East Egypt emperor empire enemy fate father favour followed force formed frontier Galba Galerius Gaul gave German Germanicus Gracchus Greek Herod historian honour imperial Italy Jerusalem Jewish Jews Judæa Jugurtha Julia Julius king land legate legions Marius Maximian Meanwhile Merivale Metellus military Mithridates murder Nero Nerva nobles Octavian Otho Pannonia Parthian party Pompey popular prætor prætorian prince provinces reign Republic restored returned to Rome Rhine Roman Rome seems Sejanus Senate sent Sextus soldiers Spain success Syria Tacitus temple Tiberius tion Titus Trajan tribes tribune triumph triumvirs troops Vespasian victory Vitellius whole
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Side 544 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people...
Side 279 - All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail ; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.
Side 259 - His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world: * his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail' and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.
Side 480 - Gibbon declares, in a memorable passage, that "if a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Side 553 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Side 552 - I have been much hindered from coming to you. But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you ; whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
Side 67 - Poured never from her frozen loins to pass Rhene or the Danaw when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the south, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
Side 617 - Philip, to the death of the emperor Gallienus, there elapsed twenty years of shame and misfortune. During that calamitous period, every instant of time was marked, every province of the Roman world was afflicted, by barbarous invaders, and military tyrants, and the ruined empire seemed to approach the last and fatal moment of its dissolution.
Side 527 - I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts : according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. For thus saith the Lord of hosts ; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come : and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
Side 257 - This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart; And in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue (Which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell.