| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...Roman arms was revived by that warlike, and successful emperor f, and he boasted with a just pride, that having received the empire oppressed with foreign and domestic wars, he left it established in profound, universal, and honourable peace^J. :, r ..- .. !;i .-.,/,. . ^/'nSi'ta" Although;... | |
| Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...and attested by public monuments their gratitude and felicity. — And he boasted with a just pride, that, having received the empire oppressed with foreign and domestic wars, he left it established in profound, universal, and honorabie peace.' Of this prince it is related, though the... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Geography - 1823 - 626 pages
...Niger and Albinas. These two rivals wore successively subdued. Niger was slain in battle, and Albums fell by his own hands. The administration of Severus was wise and equitable, but tinctu.td with despotic rigour. It v,-a? his purpose to erect the fabric of absolute monarchy, and... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee, Edward Nares - History - 1825 - 608 pages
...Niger and Albinus. These two rivals were successively subdued. Niger was slain in battle, and Albinus fell by his own hands. The administration of Severus...equitable, but tinctured with despotic rigour. It w;is his purpose to erect the fabric of absolute monarchy, and all his institutions operated with able... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History - 1828 - 558 pages
...Niger and Albinus. The 3e two rivals were successively subdued. Niger was slain in battle, and Albinus fell by his own hands. The administration of Severus...domestic wars, he left it in profound, universal, and honourable peace. He carried with him into Britain his two sons, Caracalla and Geta, whose unpromising... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History - 1828 - 936 pages
...successively subdued. Niger was slain in battle, and Albinus fell by his own hands. The admmistration of Severus was wise and equitable, but tinctured with...domestic wars, he left it in profound, universal, and honourable peace. He carried with him into Britain his two sons, Caracalla and Geta, whose unpromising... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History - 1831 - 408 pages
...Albums 5 and these two rivals being successively subdued, the one lost his life in battle, and the other fell by his own hands. The administration of Severus...to that end. He possessed eminent military talents; and it was a glorious boast of his, that having received the empire oppressed with foreign and domestic... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History - 1831 - 608 pages
...Niger and Albina-. These two rivals were successively subdued. Niger was slain in battle, and Albinus fell by his own hands. The administration of Severus...with despotic rigour. It was his purpose to erect the fiibric of absolute monarchy, and nil his institutions operated with able policy to that end. He posses*«!... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History, General - 1835 - 340 pages
...higher than in the reign of Severus. He delighted to affirm, and he had reason certainly to glory in it, that having received the empire oppressed with foreign...domestic wars, he left it in profound, universal, and honourable peace. To the military and political talents of Severus was added a taste for the fine arts,... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History - 1839 - 594 pages
...Niger and Albinus. These two rivals were successively subdued. Niger was slain in battle, and Albinus fell by his own hands. The administration of Severus...empire oppressed. with foreign and domestic wars, be left it in profound, universal, ana honourable peace. He carried with him into Britain his two sons,... | |
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