[212] Making a stop at, or dwelling too long upon. [213] After a prosperous reign of twenty-one years, Diocletian abdicated the throne, and retired to a private station. [214] After having reigned thirty-five years, he abdicated the thrones of Spain and Germany, and passed the last two years of his life in retirement at St. Just, a convent in Estremadura. [215] Philost. vit. Apoll. Tyan. v. 28. [216] “The desires of monarchs are generally impetuous and conflicting among themselves.”—Quoted rightly, _A. L._ ii. xxii. 5, from _Sallust_ (B. J. 113). [217] He was especially the rival of the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and was one of the most distinguished sovereigns that ever ruled over France. [218] An eminent historian of Florence. His great work, which is here alluded to, is, “The History of Italy during his own Time,” which is considered one of the most valuable productions of that age. [219] Spoken badly of. Livia was said to have hastened the death of Augustus, to prepare the accession of her son Tiberius to the throne. [220] Solyman the Magnificent was one of the most celebrated of the Ottoman monarchs. He took the Isle of Rhodes from the Knights of St. John. He also subdued Moldavia, Wallachia, and the greatest part of Hungary, and took from the Persians Georgia and Bagdad. He died A. D. 1566. His wife Roxolana (who was originally a slave called Rosa or Hazathya), with the Pasha Rustan, conspired against the life of his son Mustapha, and by their instigation this distinguished prince was strangled in his father’s presence. [221] The infamous Isabella of Anjou. [222] Adulteresses. [223] He, however, distinguished himself by taking Cyprus from the Venetians in the year 1571. [224] He was falsely accused by his brother Perseus of attempting to dethrone his father, on which he was put to death by the order of Philip, B. C. 180. [225] Anselm was Archbishop of Canterbury in the time of William Rufus and Henry the First. Though his private life was pious and exemplary, through his rigid assertion of the rights of the clergy he was continually embroiled with his sovereign. Thomas à Becket pursued a similar course, but with still greater violence. [226] The great vessel that conveys the blood to the liver, after it has been enriched by the absorption of nutriment from the intestines. [227] This is an expression similar to our proverb, “Penny-wise and pound-foolish.” [228] A subdivision of the shire. [229] The Janizaries were the body-guards of the Turkish sultans, and enacted the same disgraceful part in making and unmaking monarchs, as the mercenary Prætorian guards of the Roman Empire. [230] “Remember that thou art a man.” [231] “Remember that thou art a God.” [232] “The representative of God.” [233] Isaiah ix. 6: “His name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” [234] Prov. xx. 18: “Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.”