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This tax-tenth, which the state levied from private landed property, is to be clearly distinguished from the proprietor's tenth, which it imposed on the domain-land. Comp, my Staatsrecht, iii. 730. The mode of proceeding was apparently as follows. The Roman government fixed in the first instance the kind and the amount of the tax.
Eusebius, in fact, far from exaggerating the authority of Papias, is embarrassed at his simple ingenuousness, at his gross millenarianism, and solves the difficulty by treating him as a man of little mind. Comp. Irenæus, Adv.
The Via Media, whether or not logically consistent, was a thing of genuine English growth, and was at least a working theory. Essays Critical and Historical, 1871. Apologia, pp. 181, 182. Comp. Letter to Jelf, p. 18. British Critic, April 1839, pp. 419-426. Condensed in the Apologia, pp. 192-194. Comp. Letter to Jelf, pp. 7, 8. Apologia, pp. 212, 221. No. 90, p. 24. The following letter of Mr.
The ancient constitutional law, as it applied at least to the Roman client- states, seems to have given to the reigning prince the right of ultimate disposal of his kingdom not absolutely, but only in the absence of -agnati- entitled to succeed. Comp. Gutschmid's remark in the German translation of S. Sharpe's History of Egypt, ii. 17.
The primary impulse of martyrs is the pure love of the Law, the advantage which their death will procure to the people, and the glory which will attach to their name. Comp. We find among the ancient people of Israel only very indecisive traces of this fundamental dogma.
It is doubtful whether we shall ever be able, upon this extensively devastated soil, to ascertain the places where mankind would gladly come to kiss the imprint of his feet. Comp. The best argument we can give in its favor is the name of Tell-Houm itself, Tell entering into the names of many villages, and being a substitute for Caphar.
"The Gallic oxen especially are of good repute in Italy, for field labour forsooth; whereas the Ligurian are good for nothing." Here, no doubt, Cisalpine Gaul is referred to, but the cattle-husbandry there doubtless goes back to the Celtic epoch. Mus. Comp. Movers, Phoen. ii. 3, 167 seq. IV. V. Transalpine Relations of Rome IV. V. Defeat of Longinus IV. V. Transalpine Relations of Rome
Yet there is no trace of Latin cohorts in Caesar's Gallic army; on the contrary according to his express statements all the recruits levied by him in Cisalpine Gaul were added to the legions or distributed into legions. Comp. Hermes, xvi. 30. V. VII. Fresh Violations of the Rhine-Boundary by the Germans
She cannot, in any case, be identified with the mathematician who uses red ink. No ingenuity in nicknaming could extract Carpy from Campbell. There was, in spite of its great length, a postscript to Lalage's letter. There was also an enclosure. "P.S. What does 'flippant' mean? The old Pet said my comp. was flippant, and I don't know what that is. It was my first comp."
Philo, De Spec. Deut. 22:5, and Nazir, 59a, with Ant. Philo, De Spec. C. Ap. ii. 27. Comp. Josephus, from a different motive, is silent about the golden calf and the breaking of the tablets of stone. Those incidents, to his mind, did not reflect credit on his people; therefore they were not to be disclosed to Greek and Roman readers.
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