Evanus: A Tale of the Days of ConstantineA.R. Mowbray & Company, 1872 |
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Evanus: A Tale of the Days of Constantine the Great Augustine David Crake Affichage du livre entier - 1885 |
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Page 55 - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face; Plead better at the bar; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise: But, Rome! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, « To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way; To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free: These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
Page 159 - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 192 - Thus your hearts to rend ; Death is life's beginning Rather than its end. What though now to darkness We this body give ; Soon shall all its senses Re-awake, and live ; Soon shall warmth revisit These poor bones again ; And the blood...
Page 237 - We commit his body to the ground in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life," is exactly right. The resurrection, not this or that individual's resurrection. We affirm our sure and certain hope, that for man a resurrection to eternal life there is.
Page 248 - and slew all that dwelt therein, so that not a single Briton was there left.
Page 217 - A body of troops, habituated to preserve this open order, in a long front and a rapid charge, found themselves prepared to execute every disposition which the circumstances of war, or the skill of their leader, might suggest. The soldier possessed a free space for his arms and motions...
Page 247 - Caecus (B. c. 312). The general construction of a Roman road was as follows :— In the first place, two shallow trenches (sulci) were dug parallel to each other, marking the breadth of the proposed road ; this in the great lines is found to have been from 13 to 15 feet. The loose earth between the sulci was then removed, and the excavation continued until a solid foundation (gremium) was reached, upon which the materials of the road might firmly rest ; if this could not be attained, in consequence...
Page 55 - ... tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (hoe tibi erunt artes), pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
Page 205 - ... and they composed, including the rest of the Italians who were enlisted into his service, a formidable body of fourscore thousand men. Forty thousand Moors and Carthaginians had been raised since the reduction of Africa. Even Sicily furnished its proportion of troops; and the armies of Maxentius amounted to one hundred and seventy thousand foot and eighteen thousand horse. The wealth of Italy supplied the expenses of the war; and the adjacent provinces were exhausted, to form immense magazines...