Rome / the Roman empire · Atlas

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Rome / Roman Empire1 mention

Lectures on the Early History of Institutions (English)

‘One thousand three hundred two and forty years from the birth of Christ till this night;

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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

Ancient political power whose law and legislative activity are contrasted with unaffected Aryan custom.

‘One thousand three hundred two and forty years from the birth of Christ till this night;

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In the oldest Irish traditions the lawyer is distinguished with difficulty from the poet, poetry from literature.

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It was Christianity, a ‘religion of a book,’ which for the first time introduced many of the ruder nations outside the Empire to the art of writing.

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Consolation to PolybiusImperial · Latin

The Roman state and empire, whose fortunes are shaped by the emperors discussed.

Let us obtain from her this one thing by public vows and prayers—if she has not yet resolved to make an end of the human race, if she still looks with favour upon the Roman name:

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Yet I cannot, now that I have gone round all the Caesars from whom Fortune snatched away brothers and sisters, pass over this one, who must be set apart from the whole company of the Caesars—him whom Nature brought forth for the destruction and reproach of the human race, by whom the empire was scorched and utterly overthrown, and which now the clemency of the gentlest of princes restores.

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