 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 pàgines
...imperfeft heroifm and profane pbilofophy of Trajan and the Antonines, the mature age of Conftantinc forfeited the reputation which he had acquired in...the council of Nice, was polluted by the execution, o» rather murder, of his eldeft fon. This date is alone fufficient to refute the ignorant and malicious... | |
 | 1798 - 604 pàgines
...moderation, to the abufe of his fortune. Inftead of aliening his jull fuperioritv above the imperfefl heroifm and prophane philofophy of Trajan and the...of Nice, was polluted by the execution, or rather the murder of his eldeft fon. This date is alone fuilicient to refute the ignorant and malicious fuggeflions... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pàgines
...advanced in the knowledge of truth, he proportionably declined in the practice of virtue; and. the same year of his reign in which he convened the council of Nice was polluted by the execution, or rather the murder, of Crispus his eldest son. From this time the emperor could no longer hesitate in the choice... | |
 | 1849 - 878 pàgines
...religious rights. But, in the year 3a5, he ordered his rival, Licinius, to be strangled; and the same year in which he convened the Council of Nice, was polluted by the execution, or rather murder, of his eldest son. * It is not disputed that his career was marked by the usual excesses of intemperate and... | |
 | 1849 - 862 pàgines
...But, in the year 325, be ordered his rival, Licinius, to be strangled; and the same year in «hich he convened the Council of Nice, was polluted by the execution, or rather murder, of his eldest son. * It is not disputed that his career was marked by the usual excesses of intemperate and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 pàgines
...advanced in the knowledge of truth, he proportionably declined in the practice of virtue ; and the same year of his reign in which he convened the council...polluted by the execution, or rather murder, of his eldest son. This date is alone sufficient to refute the ignorant and malicious suggestions of Zosimus,69... | |
 | Thomas Armitage - 1887 - 1042 pàgines
...advanced in the knowledge of truth, he proportionably declined in the practice of virtue, and the same year of his reign in which he convened the Council of Nice was polluted with the execution, or rather murder, of his eldest son. . . . The bishops, whom he summoned to his... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 pàgines
...he proportionally declined in the practice of virtue ; and the same year of ( 144 ) CONVERSION Ыч reign in which he convened the Council of Nice was...polluted by the execution, or rather murder, of his eldest son. — Qibbon. 1338. CONVERSION, known by its effects. Can you say, " I am not what I once... | |
 | Charles Taze Russell - 1889 - 380 pàgines
...from the many thousands of his subjects who had embraced the doctrines of Christianity . . . The same year of his reign in which he convened the Council of Nice was polluted by the execution of his eldest son. The gratitude of the Church has exalted the virtues and excused the failings of... | |
 | George Henry Martin - 1890 - 76 pàgines
...knowledge of [Christian] truth, he proportionably declined in the practice of virtue ; and the same year of his reign in which he convened the Council of Nice was polluted by the murder of his eldest son" (Gibbon, "Decline and Fall," chap. xx.). " Ever, since the Fathers fooled... | |
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Constantine forfeited the reputation which he had acquired in his youth. As he gradually advanced in the knowledge of truth, he proportionably declined in the practice of virtue ; and the same year of his reign in which he convened the council of Nice... 
