The Roman History: From the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the Destruction of the Western Empire. By Dr. Goldsmith. In Two Volumes. ...P. Wogan, J. Exshaw, W. Porter, J. Moore, W. Sleater, and J. Rice, 1799 |
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Página 110 - Caligula, adorned with all the magnificence of eastern royalty, attended by the great officers of the army, and all the nobility of Rome, entered at one end of the bridge, and with ridiculous importance rode to the other. At night...
Página 189 - He descended to some very unusual and dishonourable imposts, even to the laying a tax upon urine. When his son Titus remonstrated against the meanness of such a tax, Vespasian taking a piece of money, demanded if the smell offended him ; adding, that this very money was produced by urine. But the avarice of princes is generally a virtue when their own expences are but few.
Página 100 - At this time the Romans were arrived at the highest pitch of effeminacy and vice. The wealth of almost every nation in the empire, having long circulated through the city, brought with it the luxuries peculiar to each country. Rome was one vast mass of pollution, and sensuality. It was thought a refinement upon pleasure to make it unnatural.
Página 260 - Great ; and among other extravagancies, caused a statue of that monarch to be made with two faces ; one of which resembled Alexander, and the other himself. He was so corrupted by flattery, that he called himself Alexander ; walked as he was told that monarch had walked, and, like him, bent his head to one shoulder.
Página 103 - He even refused a paper that was offered him, tending to the discovery of a conspiracy against himself; alleging, That he was conscious of nothing to deserve any man's hatred, and, therefore, had no fears from their machinations. He...
Página 252 - Rome. As he came near the city, his first exertion of power was, to have all the praetorian soldiers who had lately sold the empire come forth unarmed to meet him.
Página 188 - Yet all his numerous acts of generosity and magnificence could not preserve his character from the imputation of rapacity and avarice. He revived many obsolete methods of taxation, and even bought and sold commodities himself, in order to increase his fortune. He is charged with advancing the most avaricious governors to the provinces, in order to share their plunder on their return to Rome.
Página 98 - These were losses that might excite the vigilance of any other governor but Tiberius. He, however, was so much a slave to his brutal appetites, that he left his provinces wholly to the care of his lieutenants, and they were intent rather on the accumulation of private fortune, than the safety of the state. Such a total disorder in the empire, might be naturally...
Página 263 - We are told but little of this emperor, except his engaging in a bloody, though undecided battle, with Artabanus, king of Parthia, who came to take vengeance for the injury he had sustained in the late reign: however, this monarch, finding his real enemy dead, was content to make peace, and returned into Parthia. Something is also said of the severity of...
Página 173 - Josephus tells us, that if he had reigned long, the whole empire would not have been sufficient to have maintained his gluttony. All the attendants of his court sought to raise themselves, not by their virtue or abilities, but the sumptuousness of their entertainments.