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... military despotism from the extinction of the race of the Antonines by the death of Commodus ( A.D. 193 ) to the accession of Dioclesian ( A.D. 284 ) . The legions engaged in a constant struggle against the barba- rians at a distance ...
... military despotism from the extinction of the race of the Antonines by the death of Commodus ( A.D. 193 ) to the accession of Dioclesian ( A.D. 284 ) . The legions engaged in a constant struggle against the barba- rians at a distance ...
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... military oaths should be sworn by their name . It is erroneously imagined that such madmen only as Nero and Caligula indulged the passion of deification ; Marcus Aurelius , whom it has pleased some authors to describe as the model of ...
... military oaths should be sworn by their name . It is erroneously imagined that such madmen only as Nero and Caligula indulged the passion of deification ; Marcus Aurelius , whom it has pleased some authors to describe as the model of ...
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... military aristocracy , while they degraded the con- quered into a herd of slaves . Thus the invaders became the feudal lords of the vanquished nation ; or rather , the nation itself , ( as was the case with the Normans in England ...
... military aristocracy , while they degraded the con- quered into a herd of slaves . Thus the invaders became the feudal lords of the vanquished nation ; or rather , the nation itself , ( as was the case with the Normans in England ...
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... military Dukes and Counts , who acted as lieu- tenants - general in the Roman army . The Honourable class contained the senators , and the inferior officers , both civil and military . 26 POLITICAL SYSTEM The titles of consul and ...
... military Dukes and Counts , who acted as lieu- tenants - general in the Roman army . The Honourable class contained the senators , and the inferior officers , both civil and military . 26 POLITICAL SYSTEM The titles of consul and ...
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... military authority ; under the masters - general , who regulated the army throughout the empire , were the dukes ( duces ) , who acted as generals in the provinces , and counts ( comites ) , whose rank entitled them to be companions to ...
... military authority ; under the masters - general , who regulated the army throughout the empire , were the dukes ( duces ) , who acted as generals in the provinces , and counts ( comites ) , whose rank entitled them to be companions to ...
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Page 408 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail ; saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn, and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat...
Page 130 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 408 - And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day...
Page 420 - For, when the tenant shall make homage to his lord, he shall be ungirt, and his head uncovered, and his lord shall sit, and the tenant shall kneel before him on both his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord, and shall say thus : ' I become your man from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements (MNj that I claim to hold of you ; saving the faith that I owe unto our...
Page 420 - I become your man, from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe to our sovereign lord the king; and then the lord, so sitting, shall kiss him.
Page 407 - Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of Hosts, that in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
Page 408 - ... buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat.
Page 359 - Pontiff, servant of the servants of God, to Philip, King of France : — Fear God and keep his commandments.
Page 280 - ... the abominable Germans and French rose up against them, — people of a fierce countenance that have no respect to the persons of the old, neither have they mercy upon the young, — and they said, ' Let us be revenged for our Messiah upon the Jews...
Page 408 - I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.