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| Daniel Wilson - 1828 - 832 sider
...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... | |
| Daniel Wilson - 1829 - 354 sider
...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 - 1830 - 378 sider
...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 - 1831 - 624 sider
...closed, that they might serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these ward"! Pale the severest punishments, yet they were considered as sacrificed, not so much out of a regard to the... | |
| John Morison - 1832 - 278 sider
...and sexes, and speaks of serve as lights to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions; and exhibited at the same time a mock...a charioteer, sometimes mingling with the crowd on fool, and sometimes viewing the spectacle from his car. This conduct made the sufferers pitied; and... | |
| Thomas Timpson - 1834 - 158 sider
...! Nero lent his own gardens for their executions, and exhibited at the same time a mock Clrcensian entertainment, being a spectator of the whole in the dress of a charioteer! ! !"* Thomas. What crimes were laid to the charge of the first Christians, by which men could be induced... | |
| William Paley - 1836 - 628 sider
...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...the spectacle from his car. This conduct made the suffrrcrs pitied; and though they were criminals, and deserving the severest punishments, yet they... | |
| William Willcocks Sleigh - 1837 - 454 sider
...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 - 1838 - 976 sider
...to illuminate the night. Nero lent his own gardens for these executions, and exhibited at the «une time a mock Circensian entertainment ; being a spectator...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 - 1845 - 270 sider
...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... | |
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