 | Thomas Paine - 1810 - 504 lehte
...night. " For the convenicnce of seeing this tragic spectacle, the emperor lent his own gardens. He added the sports of the circus, and assisted in person,...every breast with compassion. Humanity relented in favor of the ehristians. The manners of that pcople were, no doubt, of a pernicious tendeney; and their... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 lehte
...the night. For the convenience of seeing this tragic spectacle, the emperor lent his own gardens. He added the sports of the circus, and assisted in person,...curricle, and occasionally mixing with the rabble in bis coachman's dress. At length the cruelty of these proceedings filled every breast with compassion.... | |
 | 1845 - 694 lehte
...drove his chariot through these scenes of agony and terror. At length, as the historian relates, " the cruelty of these • proceedings filled every...compassion. Humanity relented in favour of the Christians." For " it was evident that they fell a sacrifice, not for the public good, but to glut the rage and... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1824 - 344 lehte
...night. ' For the convenience of seeing this ' tragic spectacle, the emperor lent his own ' gardens. He added the sports of the ' Circus, and assisted in...person, sometimes ' driving a curricle, and occasionally mix' ing with the rabble in his coachman's ' dress. At length the cruelty of these ' proceedings filled... | |
 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831 - 410 lehte
...the night.1 For the convenience of seeing this tragic spectacle the emperor lent his own gardens. He added the sports of the circus, and assisted in person,...every breast with compassion. Humanity relented in favor of the Christians. The manners of that people were, no doubt, of a pernicious tendency, and their... | |
 | 1850 - 790 lehte
...convenience of"! seeing this tragic spectacle, the emperor lent his own gardens. He added the sports of I the circus, and assisted in person, sometimes driving...every breast with compassion. Humanity relented in favor of the Christians^ The manners of that people were, no doubt, of a pernicious tendency, and their... | |
 | 1854 - 296 lehte
...night. " For the convenience of seeing this tragic spectacle, the Emperor lent his own gardens. He added the sports of the circus, and assisted in person,...every breast with compassion. Humanity relented in favor of the Christians. The manners of that people were, no doubt, of a pernicious tendency, and their... | |
 | 1855 - 272 lehte
...with horror. — For the convenience of seeing this tragic spectacle, Nero lent his own gardens. He added the sports of the Circus, and assisted in person,...occasionally mixing with the rabble in his coachman's dress. The midnight horrors of that amphitheatre in the valley of the Vatican, illuminated with the blazing... | |
 | 1855 - 278 lehte
...with horror. — For the convenience of seeing this tragic spectacle, Nero lent his own gardens. He added the sports of the Circus, and assisted in person,...occasionally mixing with the rabble in his coachman's dress. The midnight horrors of that amphitheatre in the valley of the Vatican , illuminated with the blazing... | |
 | Jane Margaret Strickland - 1856 - 300 lehte
...the night. " For the convenience of seeing this tragic spectacle the emperor lent his own gardens. He added the sports of the circus, and assisted in person,...of the Christians. The manners of that people were, i*" «'«"',' of a pernicious tendency, and their crimes called for the hand of justice, but it was... | |
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... with inflammable matter, were lighted up when the day declined, to serve as torches during the night. For the convenience of seeing this tragic spectacle, the emperor lent his own gardens. He added the sports of the circus and assisted in person,... 
