Being then greeted by universal acclamation with the title of Emperor, and sending his laurel crown to the Capitol, Nero shut the temple of the two-faced Janus, as though there now existed no war throughout the Roman empire. XIV.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius
[272] From Raymond Dodge, "The Psychology of Propaganda," Religious Education , XV (1920), 241-52.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
Probably the numeral (XVI) has fallen out, and the passage ought to run: “anno regni Eadbercti XVI, quinto Id. Ian.” 1075.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint
He married Lucilla, daughter of M. A., and died 169 A.D. Vespasian, 9th Roman Emperor XENOCRATES of Chalcedon, 396-314 B.C., a philosopher, and president of the Academy.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
74 Note 73 ( return ) [ Eutropius (x. 10) describes Vetranio with more temper, and probably with more truth, than either of the two Victors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
”—Southey, Roderick, etc. , xx., xxii.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Hypocrisy: to be avoided, xi-xiii ; in religion ( Essay XII. ), 161-174 passim ; not a Bohemian vice, 296 .
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
As an abolitionist he did not believe Leviticus xxv, 44-6; he must have rejected Exodus xxi, 2-6; he could not have accepted the many permissions and injunctions by the Bible deity to his chosen people to capture and hold slaves.
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
and under various forms" ("Asiatic Researches," Essay xi., by Mr. Wilmot; vol. i., p. 285).
— from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant
Note 14261 ( return ) [ Ezek. xxix.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson
SOCIETY OF ARTS, ADELPHI, LONDON.—PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISES on the various Departments of the G REAT E XHIBITION , which shall set forth the peculiar Advantages to be derived from each by the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce of the country.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
The Book of the Covenant, however, only adduces the one case of a man sold by the judicial authority for a theft which he was unable to restore (Exodus xxii.
— from The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples The Schweich Lectures by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
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