 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 páginas
...solicit. " I am ignorant, " sir, of your motives or provocations ; I only know, " that you have acted like a man who cuts off his " right hand with his left." The luxury of Rome seems to have attracted the and ravishes long and frequent visits of Valentinian... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1841 - 470 páginas
...and provocations," said a Roman whom he asked to approve the deed ; " I only know that you have acted like a man who cuts off his right hand with his left." The feeble emperor did not long survive his able general. Among his other vices, Valentinian was addicted... | |
 | John Frost - 1846 - 374 páginas
...to a tyrant. " I am ignorant, sir, of your motives or provocations; I only know that you have acted like a man who cuts off his right hand with his left." Much has been written concerning the crimes and the treason of /Etius, but at the time of his murder,... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 530 páginas
...his own nephew Michael, whose valour had been the mainstay of the BAS BAS throne ; thus acting, аз the Russians observed, like a man who cuts off his...by the Poles, in 1610, he found himself deserted by hi» subjects, and he was at last seized by a band of conspirators, who, after forcing him to assume... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1850 - 470 páginas
...and provocations," said a Roman whom he asked to approve the deed ; " I only know that you have acted like a man who cuts off his right hand with his left." The feeble emperor did not long survive his able general. Among his other vices Valentinian was addicted... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 528 páginas
...jealousy, his own nephew Michael, whose valour had been the mainstay of the throne ; thus acting, аз the Russians observed, like a man who cuts off his...Sigismond, whose son, Ladislaus, was laying claim to the Russian throne. Schuiskoi was sent to Warsaw, where he shortly afterwards died in prison, probably... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 páginas
...solicit. " I am " ignorant, sir, of your motives or provocations ; I only know that " you have acted like a man who cuts off his right hand with his " left." 73 The luxury of Rome seems to have attracted the long and frequent visits of Valentinian, who was... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1857 - 532 páginas
...hopes by poisoning, out of jealousy, his own nephew Michael, whose valour had been the mainstay of the throne ; thus acting, as the Russians observed, like...Sigismond, whose son, Ladislaus, was laying claim to the Russian throne. Schuiskoi was sent to Warsaw, where he shortly afterwards died in prison, probably... | |
 | Sabine Baring Gould - 1873 - 404 páginas
...solicit — " I am ignorant, sire, of your motives or provocations. I only know that you have acted like a man who cuts off his right hand with his left." Valentinian, who supposed that every human breast was devoid, like his own, of friendship and gratitude,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 672 páginas
...an august trinity of children. Soe Tillemont, Hist de« Emp. torn. vi. p. 240. that you have acted like a man who cuts off his right hand with his left."" The luxury of Rome seems to have attracted the long and frequent visits of Valentinian ; who was consequently... | |
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... converted into deep and universal abhorrence. Such sentiments seldom pervade the walls of a palace ; yet the emperor was confounded by the honest reply of a Roman, whose approbation he had not disdained to solicit: "I am ignorant, sir, of your motives... 
