 | 1735 - 704 pągines
...funplicity of a Roman veteran. A mind thus relaxed by profperity and indulgence, was incapable of riling to that magnanimity which difdains fufpicion, and...narrative of the executions or rather murders, which fullied the declining age of Conftamine, will fuggeft to our moft candid thoughts, th« idea of a prince,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 614 pągines
...fierce and fufpicjon, and dares .to forgive, cruel habits of a military life. The deaths of Maximinian and Licinius may perhaps be juftified by the maxims of policy, as they To illuftrate this obfervation, I fhall now proceed to confider a nation of fhepherds and of w rBa... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 pągines
...fimplicity of a Roman veteran. A mind thus relaxed by profperity and indulgence, was incapable of riling to that magnanimity which difdains fufpicion, and...Maximian and Licinius may perhaps be juftified by the maxim» of policy, as they are taught in the fchools of tyrants ; but an impartial narrative of the... | |
 | 1793 - 738 pągines
...limplicily of a Roman veteran. A mind thus relaxed by prosperity and indulgence, was incapable of rifins; to that magnanimity which difdains fufpicion, and dares to forgive. The deaths ot Maximian and Licinius may per-" haps be juftificd by the maxims of policy, as they are taught in... | |
 | 1800 - 620 pągines
...fimplicity of a Roman veteran. A mind thus relaxed by profperity and indulgence, was incapable of riling to that magnanimity which difdains fufpicion, and dares to forgive. The deaths of Maximinian and Licinius may perhaps be juftified by the maxims of policy, as are taught in the fchools... | |
 | 1800 - 624 pągines
...fimplicity of * Roman veteran. A mind thus relaxed by profperity and indulgence, was incapable of riling to that magnanimity which difdains fufpicion, and dares to forgive. The deaths of Maximinian and Licinius may perhaps be juftified by the maxims of policy, as they are taught in the... | |
 | Pierre Franēois Merlet - 1837 - 314 pągines
...by prosperity and indulgence, was incapable of rising to that magnanimity which disdains suspicion, and dares to forgive. The deaths of Maximian and Licinius may perhaps be justified by the maxims of policy, as they are taught in the schools of tyrants; but an impartial narrative... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 730 pągines
...relaxed by prosperity and indulgence was incapable of rising to that magnanimity which disdains suspicion and dares to forgive. The deaths of Maximian and Licinius may perhaps be justified by the maxims of policy as they are taught in the schools of tyrants ; but an impartial narrative... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 714 pągines
...relaxed by prosperity and indulgence was incapable of rising to that magnanimity which disdains suspicion and dares to forgive. The deaths of Maximian and Licinius may perhaps be justified by the maxims of policy as they are taught in the schools of tyrants ; but an impartial narrative... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 492 pągines
...relaxed by prosperity and indulgence was incapable of rising to that magnanimity which disdains suspicion and dares to forgive. The deaths of Maximian and Licinius may perhaps be justified by the maxims of policy, as they are taught in the schools of tyrants ; but an impartial... | |
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A mind thus relaxed by prosperity and indulgence, was incapable of rising to that magnanimity which disdains suspicion, and dares to forgive. The deaths of Maximian and Licinius may perhaps be... 
