Italy and Her Invaders: The Ostrogothic invasion, 476-535. 1885

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Clarendon Press, 1885
 

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Էջ 205 - Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
Էջ 380 - I crave as a suppliant Thy glorious aid ; and if Thou grantest me victory over these enemies I will believe in Thee, and be baptized in Thy name.
Էջ 378 - My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord; my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies, because I rejoice in thy salvation.
Էջ 301 - For generally, as different classes in the state want different things, the government which pleases one party, has to incur the odium of those who do not belong to it. After a reign of thirty-seven years he died, having been a terror to all his enemies...
Էջ 488 - ... possess more than another. Property and marriage were mere human inventions, contrary to the will of God, which required an equal division of the good things of this world among all, and forbade the appropriation of particular women by individual men. In communities based upon property and marriage, men might lawfully vindicate their natural rights by taking their fair share of the good things wrongfully appropriated by their fellows. Adultery, incest, theft, were not really crimes, but necessary...
Էջ 570 - Caesar at Constantinople, which is the chief city of the Greeks, and their king's dwelling-place, because the Caesar was of the kin of their ancient lords: they prayed him that he would succour them with respect to their Christianity, and their ancient rights. When the cruel king Theodoric discovered this, he gave orders to take him to prison, and therein lock up. When it happened that the venerable man was fallen into so great...
Էջ 297 - ... he maintained that, if anyone wished to leave gold or silver on his land, it was deemed as safe as if within a walled city. An indication of this was...
Էջ 569 - He then called to mind the famous and the ancient rights which they had under the Caesars, their ancient lords. Then began he to enquire, and study in himself how he might take the kingdom from the unrighteous king, and bring it under the power of the faithful and righteous men. He therefore privately sent letters to the Caesar at Constantinople...
Էջ 323 - ... start up in the writer's memory, however remote in its bearing on the subject, is dragged in to exalt or illustrate it, though the subject itself may be of the plainest and most matter-of-fact kind. You read through a number of elaborate sentences, often tumid and pompous, sometimes felicitous and pointed, but all of the most general and abstract sort ; and, nestling in the thick of them, towards the end of the letter or paper, you come upon the order, or instruction, or notification, for which...
Էջ 322 - If they are more important or lengthy, they sparkle and flash with conceits and antitheses, and every scrap of learning, every bit of science or natural history, every far-fetched coincidence which may start up in the writer's memory, however remote in its bearing on the subject, is dragged in to exalt or illustrate it, though the subject itself may be of the plainest and most matter-of-fact kind. You read through a number of elaborate sentences, often tumid and pompous, sometimes felicitous and...

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