A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of Augustulus, B. C. 753--A. D. 476

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Harper & brothers, 1876 - 701 pages
 

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Page 469 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 36 - Near to the dividing ridge, many of the portages were extremely swampy. Although the country is hilly near the summit level, yet the highest ground, between the waters of the Winnepeek and St. Lawrence, is not more than one hundred and fifty feet above the level of the two lakes in which these waters are supposed to take their source.
Page 269 - It bore an inscription, attributed to Sulla himself, which said that none of his friends ever did him a kindness, and none of his foes a wrong, without being largely requited. Sulla survived his abdication about twelve months, and died in the 676th year of the city (BC 78), at the age of sixty.
Page 539 - he was the first, and, saving his colleague and successor Aurelius, the only one of the emperors who devoted himself to the task of government with a single view to the happiness of his people.

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