 Roman, and taught both that he was no respecter of persons, but a judge set upon the throne to deal out even-handed justice. Alone among all rulers, Roman or German, in his day, he was a believer without tending in the least to become a persecutor. No...  Europe - Էջ 21Charles Oman - 1895 - 532 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Henry Bradley - 1888 - 422 էջ
...on an occasion of this kind ends with the significant words, " Religion is not a thing which we can command, because no man can be compelled to believe against his will." It is to Theoderic's eternal honour that he was willing to brave the fierce indignation of the vast... | |
 | Henry Bradley - 1889 - 416 էջ
...on an occasion of this kind ends with the significant words, " Religion is not a thing which we can command, because no man can be compelled to believe against his will." It is to Theoderic's eternal honour that he was willing to brave the fierce indignation of the vast... | |
 | Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman - 1895 - 548 էջ
...administration ; twenty character of years spent in the field at the head of his tribesTheodoric. men had won him an experience in war, both with Roman and...he employed Catholics, Gothic and Roman, as freely as those of his own sect. Even the Jews got religious strict justice from him, when every other state... | |
 | Charles Oman - 1895 - 550 էջ
...his secretary Cassiodorus. Among all the Teutonic kings he was the justissimus unus et seruantissimus aequi, who set himself to curb the violence of the...he employed Catholics, Gothic and Roman, as freely Th eodoric's as those of his own sect. Even the Jews got religious strict justice from him, when every... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1897 - 476 էջ
...Cassiodorus, BSethius. Two cruel deeds only marred his reign. His extraordinary religious toleration. " Religion is a thing which the king cannot command,...man can be compelled to believe against his will." One element of greatness, however, was lacking in Theodoric. His work did not endure. He is one of... | |
 | Charles Oman - 1908 - 552 էջ
...a persecutor. No rr1onarcft for a thousand years to come could have been found to ecEoYTheodoric's magnificent declaration that 'religion is a thing\...which the king cannot command, because no man can be corflpetted) to believe against his will.' Though an Arian himself he employed Catholics, Gothic and... | |
 | Joseph Dahmus - 1995 - 420 էջ
...years of his reign. Until then he ruled with a statesmanship that belied his barbarian origins. Since "religion is a thing which the king cannot command,...man can be compelled to believe against his will," he was tolerant toward all religious communions and gave even Jews the favor of his protection. His... | |
 | 1894 - 740 էջ
...his people. The character of the great Ostrogoth himself is well appreciated. " No monarch," he says, "for a thousand years to come, could have been found...man can be compelled to believe against his will." Or again, " Italian statesmen found him a master-mind, who could comprehend all the difficulties of... | |
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