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الصفحة 208 - The truth, when feparated from the legendary and miraculous embellifhments with which it is adorned by thefe writers, feems to have been this : That fome time near the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth century, the Chriftians in the Roman province in Britain were perfecuted for their religion : that in this perfecution St. Alban, a native of Verulamium, fuffered martyrdom in that...
الصفحة 188 - Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
الصفحة 164 - ... and offered human victims to their Gods. It had unhappily become an article in the druidical creed, " That nothing but the life of man " could atone for the life of man.
الصفحة vi - He found it neceflary, indeed, to confine himfelf to a firft copy, from an unfortunate tremor in his hand, which made writing extremely inconvenient, which obliged him to write with his paper on a book placed on his knee inftead of a table, and •which unhappily increafed to fuch a degree that in the laft years of his life he was often unable to take his victuals without affiftance.
الصفحة 184 - ... family and relations; and " having, in their prefence, tried her for her " life and fame, pronounced her innocent of ** any thing immoral. Pomponia lived many " years after this trial, but always led a gloomy
الصفحة 184 - Britain, was accused of having embraced a strange and foreign superstition; and her trial for that crime was committed to her husband. He, according to ancient law and custom, convened her whole family and relations, and having, in their presence, tried her for her life and fame, pronounced her innocent of any thing immoral. "Pomponia lived many years after this trial, but always led a gloomy, melancholy kind of life.
الصفحة 232 - This laft event produced a melancholy revolution in the ftate of religion in Britain, which, together with the converfion of the Saxons to the...
الصفحة xxxi - ... politician, or the victorious general ? Can we form just ideas of the characters and circumstances of our ancestors, by viewing them only in the flames of civil and religious discord...
الصفحة 2 - ... the standardbearer of the tenth legion, having first invoked the gods for success, cried out aloud, ' Follow me, fellowsoldiers, unless you will betray the Roman eagle into the hands of the enemy : for my part, I am resolved to discharge my duty to Caesar and the commonwealth.
الصفحة 256 - This is certainly the reafon that we meet with fo few Roman towns and ftations in the country anciently inhabited by the Dobuni. The Durocornovium of Antoninus, and the Corinium of Ptolemy, are believed by antiquaries to have been the fame place, the capital of the Dobuni, and fituated at Cirencefter, in Gloucefteiihire, where there are many marks of a Roman fta55 Baxt. Gloff. Brit. p-4».