 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1869 - 460 pages
...literature of ancient Greece, instinct with the loftiest heroism ; but that literature, which afterwards did so much to revivify Europe, could fire the degenerate...Constantine there was no prince in any section of the Eoman Empire altogether so depraved, or at least so shameless, as Nero or Heliogabalus ; but the Byzantine... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1869 - 446 pages
...literature of ancient Greece, instinct with the loftiest heroism ; but that literature, which afterwards did so much to revivify Europe, could fire the degenerate...Constantine there was no prince in any section of the Eoman Empire altogether so depraved, or at least so shameless, as Nero or Heliogabalus ; but the Byzantine... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1877 - 460 pages
...literature of ancient Greece, instinct with the loftiest heroism ; but that literature, which afterwards did so much to revivify Europe, could fire the degenerate...section of the Roman Empire altogether so depraved, or at least so shameless, as Nero or Heliogabalus ; but the Byzantine Empire can show none bearing the... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1877 - 420 pages
...literature of ancient Greece, instinct with the loftiest heroism ; but that literature, which afterwards did so much to revivify Europe, could fire the degenerate Greeks with 110 spark or semblance of nobility. The history of the Empire is a monotonous story of the intrigues... | |
 | Allen Pringle - 1880 - 76 pages
...treachery. Its vices were the vices of men who ceased to be brave without learning to be virtuous. * * * The history of the empire is a monotonous story of...of uniform ingratitude, of perpetual fratricides." In speaking of the condition of the Western Empire the same author proceeds : — " A boundless intolerance... | |
 | Cushing Biggs Hassell, Sylvester Hassell - 1886 - 1050 pages
...the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed, it« history being a monotonous story of the intrigues of priests, eunuchs...of uniform ingratitude, of perpetual fratricides. That the civilization of the last three centuries has risen in most respects to a higher level than... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Underwood - 1889 - 100 pages
...theological subtlety, or some rivalry in the chariot races, stimulated them into frantic riots. . . . " The history of the Empire is a monotonous story of...of uniform ingratitude, of perpetual fratricides. ... At last the Mohammedan invasion terminated the long decreptitude of the Eastern Empire. Constantinople... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1890 - 434 pages
...literature of ancient Greece, instinct with the loftiest heroism ; but that literature, which afterwards did so much to revivify Europe, could fire the degenerate...section of the Roman Empire altogether so depraved, or at least so shameless, as Kero or Heliogabalus ; but the Byzantine Empire can show none bearing the... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1897 - 432 pages
...literature of ancient Greece, instinct with the loftiest heroism ; but that literature, which afterwards did so much to revivify Europe, could fire the degenerate...of perpetual fratricides. After the conversion of Constantino there was no prince in any section of the Roman Empire altogether so depraved, or at least... | |
 | Joseph McCabe - 1907 - 244 pages
...than two centuries ; the Eastern Empire was not overrun with them, yet its history, says Mr. Lecky, is "a monotonous story of the intrigues of priests,...poisonings, of conspiracies, of uniform ingratitude, and of perpetual fratricides " ; and history shows that, wherever the barbarians found a strong and... | |
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They possessed knowledge ; they had continually before them the noble literature of ancient Greece, instinct with the loftiest heroism ; but that literature, which afterwards did so much to revivify Europe, could fire the degenerate Greeks with no spark... 
