Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Band 6Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1868 |
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... Tiberius belonged to this house by the side of his father , Tiberius Claudius Nero , as well as his mother , Livia Drusilla , who was the niece of her husband , being the daughter of Appius Pulcher . This Appius Pulcher was a brother of ...
... Tiberius belonged to this house by the side of his father , Tiberius Claudius Nero , as well as his mother , Livia Drusilla , who was the niece of her husband , being the daughter of Appius Pulcher . This Appius Pulcher was a brother of ...
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... Tiberius returned to Rome , where he celebrated his first triumph . In the Rhætian war Tiberius had shown great military skill , but the Romans carried on the war with unheard of cruelties against the inhabitants , of whom the majority ...
... Tiberius returned to Rome , where he celebrated his first triumph . In the Rhætian war Tiberius had shown great military skill , but the Romans carried on the war with unheard of cruelties against the inhabitants , of whom the majority ...
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... Tiberius recommended to the senate as his successors Nero and Drusus , the sons of the unfortunate Germanicus and of Agrippina , who was still alive . In A.D. 26 Sejanus at last persuaded him to retire from public affairs . Tiberius ...
... Tiberius recommended to the senate as his successors Nero and Drusus , the sons of the unfortunate Germanicus and of Agrippina , who was still alive . In A.D. 26 Sejanus at last persuaded him to retire from public affairs . Tiberius ...
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... Tiberius , who was then worn out by illness , and who had no male issue . After having given his daughter Constantina in marriage to Mauritius , Tiberius died on the 14th of August 582 , and since the time of the great Theodosius no ...
... Tiberius , who was then worn out by illness , and who had no male issue . After having given his daughter Constantina in marriage to Mauritius , Tiberius died on the 14th of August 582 , and since the time of the great Theodosius no ...
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... Tiberius , Leontius , and Heraclius . Jus- tiuian II . reigned till 711. The Greeks gave him the surname of Rhinotmetus , that is , ' he whose nose is cut off . ' Tiberius Absimarus had two sons , Theodore and Constantine , who probably ...
... Tiberius , Leontius , and Heraclius . Jus- tiuian II . reigned till 711. The Greeks gave him the surname of Rhinotmetus , that is , ' he whose nose is cut off . ' Tiberius Absimarus had two sons , Theodore and Constantine , who probably ...
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Seite 147 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Seite 269 - This is perhaps the first picture of portraits in the world, comprehending more of those qualities which make a perfect portrait", than any other I have ever seen...
Seite 205 - Sacred History of the World, as displayed in the Creation and Subsequent Events to the Deluge. Attempted to be Philosophically considered in a Series of Letters to a Son. By Sharon Turner, FSA 33, 34.
Seite 103 - Travels in Western India. Embracing a visit to the Sacred Mounts of the Jains, and the most Celebrated Shrines of Hindu Faith between Rajpootana and the Indus, with an account of the Ancient City of Nehrwalla.
Seite 303 - Twenty-one million three hundred thousand of his lines are said to be actually printed ; and no less than eighteen hundred plays of his composition to have been acted on the stage. He nevertheless asserts, in one of his last poems, that " The printed part, though far too large, is less Than that which yet unprinted waits the press.
Seite 147 - He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.— And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed...
Seite 185 - There is, however, one work to which I owe so much, that it would be ungrateful not to confess the obligation: I mean the writings of the late Abraham Tucker, Esq.
Seite 185 - He was naturally endowed, not indeed with more than ordinary acuteness or sensibility, nor with a high degree of reach and range of mind, but with a singular capacity for careful observation and original reflection, and with a fancy perhaps unmatched in producing various and happy illustration. The most observable of his moral qualities appear to have been prudence and cheerfulness, good-nature and easy temper.
Seite 163 - ... being a tory in principle, he undertook to manage that party, provided he was furnished with such sums of money as might purchase some votes ; and by him began the practice of buying off men, in which hitherto the king had kept to stricter rules.
Seite 67 - ... say nothing." To what Falconet has said, we may add, that supposing this method of leaving the expression of grief to the imagination, to be, as it was thought to be, the invention of the painter, and that it deserves all the praise that has been given it, still it is a trick that will serve but once ; whoever does it a second time, will not only want novelty, but be justly suspected of using artifice to evade difficulties.