 | 1822 - 526 pages
...burnt to death. Tor these spectacles, Nero gave his own gardens, and, at the same time, exhibited there the diversions of the circus ; sometimes standing...crowd as a spectator, in the habit of a charioteer, and at other times driving a chariot himself: until at length, these men, though really criminal and... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1825 - 920 pages
...night-time, and thus burned to death. Nero made use of his own gardens as a theatre on this occasion, and also exhibited the diversions of the Circus; sometimes...crowd as a spectator, in the habit of a charioteer; at other already ?aiil,tliat it is not to establish the truth of ChristiaDity,so much as to confute the... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 684 pages
...burnt to death. For these spectacles, Nero gave his own gardens, and, at the same time, exhibited there the diversions of the circus ; sometimes standing...crowd as a spectator, in the habit of a charioteer, and at other times driving a chariot himself: until at length, these men, though really criminal and... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 682 pages
...burnt to death. For these spectacles, Nero gave his own gardens, and, at the same time, exhibited there the diversions of the circus ; sometimes standing...crowd as a spectator, in the habit of a charioteer, and at other times driving a chariot himself: until at length, these men, though really criminal and... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1826 - 456 pages
...time, and thus burned to death. Nero made use of his own gardens as a theatre upon this occasion, and also exhibited the diversions of the circus ; sometimes...crowd as a spectator, in the habit of a charioteer; sometimes driving a chariot himself: till at length these men, though really criminal, and deserving... | |
 | Robert Cree - 1827 - 426 pages
...night-time, and thus burned to death. ' Nero made use of his own gardens as a theatre upon that occasion, and also exhibited the diversions of the circus, sometimes standing in the crowd as a spectator, dressed like a charioteer ; at other times driving a chariot himself; till at length these men, though... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1829 - 466 pages
...night-time, and thus burned to death. Nero made use of bis own gardens as a theatre on this occasion, and also exhibited the diversions of the Circus, sometimes...crowd as a spectator, in the habit of a charioteer; at other times driving a chariot himself ; till at length these men, though really criminal and deserving... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1829 - 568 pages
...time, and thus burnt to death. Nero made use of his own gardens as a theatre upon this occasion, and also exhibited the diversions of the circus, sometimes standing in the crowd asa spectator, in the habit of a charioteer; at other times driving a chariot himself, till at length... | |
 | William Greenfield - 1831 - 310 pages
...burnt to death. For these spectacles, Nero gave his own gardens, and, at the same time, exhibited there the diversions of the circus; sometimes standing in...crowd as a spectator, in the habit of a charioteer, and at other times driving a chariot himself.' (See also Suetonius, in Vit. Nero. c. 16.) To these... | |
 | William Greenfield - 1831 - 300 pages
...burnt to death. Tor these spectacles, Nero gave his own gardens, and, at the same time, exhibited there the diversions of the circus; sometimes standing in...crowd as a spectator, in the habit of a charioteer, and at other times driving a chariot himself.' (See also Suetonius, in Vit. Nero. c. 16.) To these... | |
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... at length these men, though really criminal, and deserving exemplary punishment, began to be commiserated as people who were destroyed, not out of regard to the public welfare, but only to gratify the cruelty of one man" ("Annals, 
