 However, perceiving his end approaching, and as he was just going to expire, he cried out that an emperor ought to die standing ; wherefore, raising himself upon his feet, he expired in the hands of those that sustained him. (79 AD) " He was a man," says...  Edwin and Mary - עמוד 236מאת lady Eliza Dorothea Tuite - 1838תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1770 - 532 דפים
...himfelf upon his feet, he expired in thu hands of thofe that fuftained him "He was a man," fays Pliny, .. in whom power made no alteration, except in giving him the opportunity of doing good equal to THE EMPIRE OF ROME. " his will." He was the fecond Roman emperor that died a natural deathi and he... | |
 | John Adams - 1795 - 480 דפים
...was peaceably fuccceded by Titus his fon. " He was a man, in whom power made no alteration, ex " cept in giving him the opportunity of doing good equal to « his will *, ' € HA P. CHAP. XLIV. Titus.—Dreadful Eruption of Mount Vefuvnis.—Fire and Plague »t Rome.—Domitiim.—Stor... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 380 דפים
...in the arms of his supporters. His character has thus been aphoristically summed up by Pliny: " He was a man in whom " power made no alteration, except...the opportunity of doing good equal to his "will." No sooner had Vespasian submitted AD to the mortal condition, than his son Titus 79. was joyfully received... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 392 דפים
...in the arms of his supporters. His character has thus been aphoristically summed up by Pliny: " He was a man in whom " power made no alteration, except...the opportunity of doing good equal to his " will." No sooner had Vespasian submitted AD to the mortal condition, than his son Titus 79. was joyfully received... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 494 דפים
...upon his feet, he expired in the hands of those that sustained him. " He was a man," says Pliny, " in whom " power made no alteration, except in giving...the opportunity of doing good equal to " his will." He was the second Roman emperor that died a natural death ; and he was peaceably succeeded by Titus... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1819 - 238 דפים
...Herculaneum were destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It has been said of Vespasian, " That he was a man in whom power " made no alteration, except in giving " him the opportunity of doing good," and Titus was worthy of being the son of so excellent a father. It is related of Titus, that one evening... | |
 | John Robinson - 1831 - 960 דפים
...the laudable and patriotic use to which he appropiated his revenues. " He was a man,' *ays Pliny, " in whom power made no alteration, except in giving...the opportunity of doing good equal to his will." He always seemed averse from those swelling titles which the senate and people were constantly offering... | |
 | Maria E. Halsey Budden - 1837 - 674 דפים
...and Herculaneum were destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvius. It has been said of Vespasian, " That he was a man in whom power made no alteration, except in giving him the opportunity of doing good;" and Titus was worthy of being the son of so excellent a father. It is related of Titus, that, one evening,... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 דפים
...orator, and Pliny, the naturalist, were highly esteemed by him, the latter of whom says of him that " he was a man in whom power made no alteration except...the opportunity of doing good equal to his will." In his reign Titus achieved the siege of Jerusalem and its complete destroction, according to the prophecy... | |
 | Mary Bowley - 1843 - 302 דפים
...licentiousness. Pliny, the celebrated naturalist, who stood high in his favour, remarks, that " he was a man in whom power made no alteration, except...the opportunity of doing good equal to his will." He seemed always to dislike rather than to court the flattering titles offered him by the senate and... | |
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