 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1808 - 390 pages
...all sense of justice, honour or duty. Had they followed the examples of Julius or Augustus Caesar, the Romans would •scarcely have had reason to regret...abandoned villains that ever swayed a sceptre. The kings of the Ottoman Turks, though barbarous and bloody tyrants, were almost without a stain in comparison... | |
 | John Bowden - Episcopacy - 1808 - 312 pages
...of 'your hypothesis, or a circumstance, which, if it has any force, lies entirely against yourself, can be accounted for in no other way, than by supposing that your zeal obscured your understanding. What you say from page 339 to 341, is only a repetition of what... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 204 pages
...currency such unfounded assumptions have obtained among the great mass of society in this country. It can be accounted for in no other way than by supposing that the impetuosity and confidence of those who proclaim such doctrines, have overcome by a Fudden impulse,... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1826 - 590 pages
...Britain was subdued, and several large countries on this side and beyond the .Danube, as lllyricum, Dacia, Pannonia, &c. The emperor Trajan, in order...and abandoned villains, that ever swayed a sceptre. Nor can we read the history of Rome, without wondering, how it was possible for that once powerful... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1826 - 590 pages
...elegant historian remarks, " the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind."* 2, The cruelty, depravity, folly and enormous vices...and abandoned villains, that ever swayed a sceptre. Nor can we read the history of Rome, without wondering, how it was possible for that once powerful... | |
 | Moses Stuart - Bible - 1827 - 312 pages
...That Schulz should make a representation so singularly incorrect, respecting the appellation xvyios, can be accounted for in no other way, than by supposing that he never examined his Concordance, for the sake of investigating the question respecting the use of... | |
 | George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 pages
...of superior powers has been so universal in all ages and nations, savage as well as civilized, that it can be accounted for in no other way than by supposing such a belief natural to man, either as an innate or instinctive principle, or as a conclusion to which... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1828 - 526 pages
...rescued them from deplorable wars and wasting revolutions, urged on by the rage of various powerfcl parties, succeeding one another. Indeed it is surprising,...and abandoned villains, that ever swayed a sceptre. Nor can we read the history of Rome, without wondering, how it was possible for that once powerful... | |
 | John Bowden - Episcopacy - 1831 - 358 pages
...of your hypothesis, or a circumstance, which, if it has any force, lies entirely against yourself, can be accounted for in no other way, than by supposing that your zeal obscured your understanding. What you say from page 339 to 341, is only a repetition of what... | |
 | Moses Stuart - 1834 - 672 pages
...That Schulz should make a representation so singularly incorrect, respecting the appellation xvpwc, can be accounted for in no other way, than by supposing that he never examined his Concordance, for the sake of investigating the question respecting the use of... | |
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The cruelty, depravity, folly and enormous vices of the emperors generally, form a striking feature in this period. They seem to have been utterly lost to all sense of justice, honor and duty. Had they followed the examples of Julius or Augustus Cesar,... 
