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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 472 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=27mm, Gew.=685gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 472 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=27mm, Gew.=685gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: little." In order to terminate more speedily his acute and increasing pains, he asked, it is said, for poison;.but no one being willing to comply with his desire, he took so great a quantity of- food that he 'was suffocated. This happened in his sixty-sixth year, and about the eighteenth of his reign (a. D. 211). He left behind him the reputation, not of a good, but, in many respects, a great monarch, and, next to Trajan, the most warlike of the Roman emperors. Such was the natural activity of his mind, that, even at the last moment of his life, he was asking whether there was any thing to be done, Making due allowance for the peculiarities necessarily occasioned by the difference of time, place and other circumstances, there is not perhaps, in all history, a single prince who so strikingly resembles the great conqueror of our own age, Napoleon Bonaparte. Not that Napoleon was so revengeful and inexorable as Severus; but we see in both the same active and warlike genius; the same boldness in undertaking, and quickness in executing; the same talents and firmness in government; the same ardor for the advancement of their families; and, in fine, the same indifference for the lives of other men, when their own interest and ambitious views were to be promoted. CARACALLA?MACRINUS?HELIOGABALDS.?A. D. 211.?222 The death of Severus would have caused little or no regret, had he not been succeeded by so great a monster as his son Caracalla, whose name was derived from a Gallic vestment which he was fond of wearing. He commenced his reign by the murder of his brother Geta, and continued, for six years, through such a course of debaucheries, cruelties and rapines, which Europe, Syria, and Egypt successively witnessed, as fully to deserve the name of second Caligula, which is given him...<

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: little." In order to terminate more speedily his acute and increasing pains, he asked, it is said, for poison.but no one being willing to comply with his desire, he took so great a quantity of- food that he 'was suffocated. This happened in his sixty-sixth year, and about the eighteenth of his reign (a. D. 211). He left behind him the reputation, not of a good, but, in many respects, a great monarch, and, next to Trajan, the most warlike of the Roman emperors. Such was the natural activity of his mind, that, even at the last moment of his life, he was asking whether there was any thing to be done, Making due allowance for the peculiarities necessarily occasioned by the difference of time, place and other circumstances, there is not perhaps, in all history, a single prince who so strikingly resembles the great conqueror of our own age, Napoleon Bonaparte. Not that Napoleon was so revengeful and inexorable as Severus but we see in both the same active and warlike genius the same boldness in undertaking, and quickness in executing the same talents and firmness in government the same ardor for the advancement of their families and, in fine, the same indifference for the lives of other men, when their own interest and ambitious views were to be promoted. CARACALLA?MACRINUS?HELIOGABALDS.?A. D. 211.?222 The death of Severus would have caused little or no regret, had he not been succeeded by so great a monster as his son Caracalla, whose name was derived from a Gallic vestment which he was fond of wearing. He commenced his reign by the murder of his brother Geta, and continued, for six years, through such a course of debaucheries, cruelties and rapines, which Europe, Syria, and Egypt successively witnessed, as fully to deserve the name of second Caligula, which is given him...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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Modern History From the Coming of Christ and the Change of the Roman Republic Into an Empire to the Year of Our Lord 1844 Author :Peter Fredet 9780217025256 0217025250