...slain without mercy. At one time, being incensed with the citizens of Rome, he wished " that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow." Such insupportable and capricious cruelties produced many secret conspiracies against...

...slain without mercy. At one time, being incensed with the citizens of Rome, he wished " that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow." Such insupportable and capricious cruelties produced many secret conspiracies against...

...presiding at an execution. At one time being incensed with the citizens of Rome, he wished that all the Roman people had but one neck that he might dispatch them at a blow Such insupportable and capricious cruelties produced tnany secret conspiracies against him ; but these...

...assertion, the truth of which the experience of all ages contradiets. Nero was not less a tyrant for being a fiddler : he* who wished the whole Roman people had...himself the most debauched man in Rome ; and Sydney and Russell were condemned to bleed under the most barbarous, though most dissipated and voluptuous reign...

...presiding at* an execution. At one time being incensed with the citizens of Rome, he wished that all the Roman people had but one neck that he might dispatch them at a blow. Such insupportable and capricious cruelties produced many secret conspiracies against him ; but these...

...slain without mercy. At one time, being incensed with the citizens of Rome, he wished that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a blow. Such insupportable and capricious cruelties produced many secret conspiracies against him; but these...

...their executioner. And as the height of insane cruelty, he once expressed the wish <i that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow." His impieties, and the depravation of his appetites, made him. still more a disgrace...

...also, commanded that all exiles should be slain without mercy. At one time, he wished " that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow." In the third year of his reign, he undertook an expedition against the Germans and Britons,...

...blaming their executioner. And as the height of insane cruelty, he once expressed the wish " that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow." His impieties, and the depravation of his appetites, made him still more a disgrace to...

...assertion, the truth of which the experience of all ages contradicts. Nero was not less a tyrant for being a fiddler: he* who wished the whole Roman people had but one neck, that he might despatch them at a blow, was himself the most debauched man in Rome ; and Sydney and Russel were condemned...