The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur And Failure of Its Civilization.
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They lived for the present hour, and for their pleasures, indifferent to the great inter- ests of the public, and to the miseries of the poor. They were bound up in themselves. They were grossly mate- rial in all their aims. They had lost all ideas of public virtue. They degraded women ; they oppressed the peo- ple; they laughed at philanthropy; they could not be reached by elevated sentiments ; they had no concern for the future. Scornful, egotistical, haughty, self-indulgent, affected, cynica...l, all their thoughts and conversation were directed to frivolities. Nothing made any impression upon them but passing vanities. They ignored both Heaven and Hell. They were like the courtiers of Louis XV. in the 1 Found in the sixth chapter of the fourteenth, and the fourth of the twenfy* eighth, hook of Ammianus Marcellinus.
Digitized by VjOOQIC 412 Jntemal Condition of the Roman Empire, [Csap. x.
most godless period of the monarchy. They were worsci for they superadded pagan infidelities. There were mem- orable exceptions, but not many, until Christianity had reached the throne.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They lived for the present hour, and for their pleasures, indifferent to the great inter- ests of the public, and to the miseries of the poor. They were bound up in themselves. They were grossly mate- rial in all their aims. They had lost all ideas of public virtue. They degraded women ; they oppressed the peo- ple; they laughed at philanthropy; they could not be reached by elevated sentiments ; they had no concern for the future. Scornful, egotistical, haughty, self-indulgent, affected, cynica...l, all their thoughts and conversation were directed to frivolities. Nothing made any impression upon them but passing vanities. They ignored both Heaven and Hell. They were like the courtiers of Louis XV. in the 1 Found in the sixth chapter of the fourteenth, and the fourth of the twenfy* eighth, hook of Ammianus Marcellinus.
Digitized by VjOOQIC 412 Jntemal Condition of the Roman Empire, [Csap. x.
most godless period of the monarchy. They were worsci for they superadded pagan infidelities. There were mem- orable exceptions, but not many, until Christianity had reached the throne.
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