 ... in order to free the state from such unserviceable citizens. He frequently had men racked before him while he sat at table, ironically pitying their misfortunes, and blaming their executioner. And as the height of insane cruelty, he once expressed...  The Lady's Pocket Library - Page 121809 - 330 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 380 pages
...slain without mercy. At one time, being incensed with the citizens of Rome, he wished " that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow." Such insupportable and capricious cruelties produced many secret conspiracies against... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1802 - 392 pages
...slain without mercy. At one time, being incensed with the citizens of Rome, he wished " that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow." Such insupportable and capricious cruelties produced many secret conspiracies against... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - History, Ancient - 1808 - 282 pages
...presiding at an execution. At one time being incensed with the citizens of Rome, he wished that all the Roman people had but one neck that he might dispatch them at a blow Such insupportable and capricious cruelties produced tnany secret conspiracies against him ; but these... | |
 | Hannah More - Conduct of life - 1810 - 220 pages
...assertion, the truth of which the experience of all ages contradiets. Nero was not less a tyrant for being a fiddler : he* who wished the whole Roman people had...himself the most debauched man in Rome ; and Sydney and Russell were condemned to bleed under the most barbarous, though most dissipated and voluptuous reign... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1810 - 282 pages
...presiding at* an execution. At one time being incensed with the citizens of Rome, he wished that all the Roman people had but one neck that he might dispatch them at a blow. Such insupportable and capricious cruelties produced many secret conspiracies against him ; but these... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1812 - 494 pages
...slain without mercy. At one time, being incensed with the citizens of Rome, he wished that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a blow. Such insupportable and capricious cruelties produced many secret conspiracies against him; but these... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...their executioner. And as the height of insane cruelty, he once expressed the wish <i that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow." His impieties, and the depravation of his appetites, made him. still more a disgrace... | |
 | John Robinson - History, Ancient - 1831 - 960 pages
...also, commanded that all exiles should be slain without mercy. At one time, he wished " that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow." In the third year of his reign, he undertook an expedition against the Germans and Britons,... | |
 | Royal Robbins - World geography - 1833 - 676 pages
...blaming their executioner. And as the height of insane cruelty, he once expressed the wish " that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow." His impieties, and the depravation of his appetites, made him still more a disgrace to... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 422 pages
...assertion, the truth of which the experience of all ages contradicts. Nero was not less a tyrant for being a fiddler: he* who wished the whole Roman people had but one neck, that he might despatch them at a blow, was himself the most debauched man in Rome ; and Sydney and Russel were condemned... | |
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