| Charles Merivale - 1862 - 696 páginas
...that Antoninus was the first, and, saving his colleague and successor Aurelius, the only one of them who devoted himself to the task of government with a single view to the happiness of his people. Throughout the meagre notices of his career which alone remain to us, we discover no trace of a selfish... | |
| Philip Van Ness Myers - 1882 - 520 páginas
...the Roman empire an administration singularly pure and parental. Of him it has been said that " he was the first, and, saving his colleague and successor...with a single view to the happiness of his people." Throughout his long reign of twenty-three years, the empire was in a state of profound peace. The attention... | |
| William Binnington Boyce - 1884 - 676 páginas
...of law, and prepared the way for the codifications of the later emperors. Antoninus succeeded 138 AD "The consent of antiquity plainly declares that Antoninus...with a single view to the happiness of his people .... he equally deserved to be called the Numa of the empire, but his great merit .... was his protection... | |
| Arsenius John Baptist Vuibert - 1886 - 696 páginas
...was already in his 52nd year, when he began to reign. He was the first Roman ruler that seems to have devoted himself to the task of government with a single view to the happiness of his people — a fact worthy of notice, and showing a decided progress of humanity, due, no doubt, to an indirect... | |
| Charles Merivale - 1888 - 740 páginas
...antiquity plainly declares that Antoninus was the first, and, saving his colleague and successor Aurelios, the only one of the emperors who devoted himself to...state, and indeed to a great extent in the family irenerally. the sense of mutual rights and obligations made itself felt. Humanity had made decided... | |
| Philip Van Ness Myers - 1889 - 858 páginas
...the Roman empire an administration singularly pure and parental. Of him it has been said that " he was the first, and, saving his colleague and successor...with a single view to the happiness of his people." Throughout his long reign of twenty-three years, the empire was in a state of profound peace. The attention... | |
| William Francis Allen, Philip Van Ness Myers - 1891 - 690 páginas
...the Roman empire an administration singularly pure and parental. Of him it has been said that " he was the first, and, saving his colleague and successor...with a single view to the happiness of his people." Throughout his long reign of twenty-three years, the empire was in a state of profound peace. The attention... | |
| British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities - 1899 - 256 páginas
...that Antoninus was the first, and, saving his colleague and successor Aurelius, the only Roman emperor who devoted himself to the task of government with a single view to the happiness of his people ' (Merivale). 26, 1464. Two heads of Marcus Aurelius, emperor and philosopher, author of the ' Meditations.'... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1899 - 784 páginas
...surnamed the Pious. He and his successor Marcus Aarelius were the only Emperors who devoted themselves to the task of government with a single view to the happiness of the people. His wife, Faustina, was notorious for her amours (Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, p.... | |
| Philip Van Ness Myers - 1900 - 616 páginas
...the Roman empire an administration singularly pure and parental. Of him it has been said that " he was the first, and, saving his colleague and successor...with a single view to the happiness of his people." Throughout his long reign of twenty-three years, the empire was in a state of profound peace. The attention... | |
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