Category: History - European
I have availed myself of the interval since the last edition, to subject this book to a minute and careful revision, removing such inaccuracies as I have been able myself to discover, as well as those which have been brought under my notice by reviewers or correspondents. I mu...
One of the first facts that must strike a student who examines the ethical teaching of the ancient civilisations is how imperfectly that teaching was represented, and how feebly...
2. CHAPTER I. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MORALS.A brief enquiry into the nature and foundations of morals appears an obvious, and, indeed, almost an indispensable preliminary, to any examination of the moral progress of Europ...
4. CHAPTER III. THE CONVERSION OF ROME.There is no fact in the history of the human mind more remarkable than the complete unconsciousness of the importance and the destinies of Christianity, manifested by the Pagan...
8. viii. 197-210) with great indignation on an instance of a patrician514 E.g. Clem. Alex. _Strom._ iii. There is a well-known passage of this kind in Horace, _Ars Poet._ 412-415. The comparison of the good man to an athlete or gladiator, which St...
7. xiv. 14), who ascribes the law to Romulus, and who mentions twocases in which women were said to have been put to death for this offence, and a third in which the offender was deprived of her dowry. Cato said that the ancient Romans were ac...
6. part vii. ch. i. §3.12 “Ce que les hommes ont nommé amitié n’est qu’une société, qu’un ménagement réciproque d’intérêts et qu’un échange de bons offices. Ce n’est enfin qu’un commerce où l’amour-pr...
1. Chapter III. The Conversion Of Rome.I have availed myself of the interval since the last edition, to subject this book to a minute and careful revision, removing such inaccuracies as I have been able myself to dis...
5. book ii. ch. xxviii. “Take away pleasures and pains, not onlyhappiness, but justice, and duty, and obligation, and virtue, all of which have been so elaborately held up to view as independent of them, are so many empty sounds.”—Bentham’s...
9. xiii. But in Gaul, as I have said, the persecution had not extended905 The history of this persecution is given by Eusebius, _Hist._ lib. viii., in his work on the _Martyrs of Palestine_, and in Lactantius, _De Mort. Persec._ The persecution in...