History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2)Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Philosophy
History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2)
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Ethics; Europe -- Moral conditions
Clarke, on moral judgments, i. 77
Classical literature, preservation of, ii. 199.
Manner in which it was regarded by the Church, 200-204
Claudius, his delight in gladiatorial shows, i. 280.
His decree as to slaves, 307
Claver, Father, his remark on some persons who had delivered a criminal
into the hands of justice, i. 41, _note_
Cleanthes, his suicide, i. 212
Clemency, Seneca’s distinction between it and pity, i. 189
Clement of Alexandria, on the two sources of all the wisdom of antiquity,
i. 344.
On the Sibylline books, 376.
On wigs, ii. 149
Clemens, Flavius, put to death, i. 433
Cleombrotus, his suicide, i. 212, _note_
Clergy, corruption of the, from the fourth century, ii. 150, 237.
Submission of the Eastern, but independence of the Western, clergy to
the civil power, 264-268.
History of their celibacy, 328
Climate, effects of, in stimulating or allaying the passions, i. 144
Clotaire, his treatment of Queen Brunehaut, ii. 237
Clotilda, her conversion of her husband, i. 410; ii. 180
Clovis, his conversion, i. 410; ii. 180.
Gregory of Tours’ account of his acts, 240, 241
Cock-fighting among the ancients and moderns, ii. 164, and _note_, 175,
_note_
Cock-throwing, ii. 164, _note_, 175, _note_
Coemgenus, St., legend of, ii. 111, _note_
Coleridge, S. T., his remarks on the practice of virtue as a pleasure, i.
28, _note_.
His admiration for Hartley, 28, _note_.
On the binding ground of the belief of God and a hereafter, i. 55,
_note_
Colman, St., his animal companions, ii. 170.
His girdle, 319, _note_
Colonies, Roman, the cosmopolitan spirit forwarded by the aggrandisement
of the, i. 233
Colosseum, the, i. 275.
Games at the dedication of the, 280
Columbanus, St., his missionary labours, ii. 246
Comedy, Roman, short period during which it flourished, i. 277
Comet, a temple erected by the Romans in honour of a, i. 367
Commodus, his treatment of the Christians, i. 443
Compassion, theory that it is the cause of our acts of barbarity, i. 71,
72
Concubines, Roman, ii. 350
Concupiscence, doctrine of the Fathers respecting, ii. 281
Condillac, cause of the attractiveness of utilitarianism to, i. 71.
Connection with Locke, i. 122, _note_
Confessors, power of the, in the early Church, i. 390, and _note_
Congo, Helvétius, on a custom of the people of, i. 102, _note_
Conquerors, causes of the admiration of, i. 94, 95
Conscience, association of ideas generating, i. 28.
Recognised by the disciples of Hartley, 29.
Definitions of Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, and Bain, 29, _note_.
The rewards and punishments of conscience, 60-62.
Unique position of, in our nature, 83.
As defined by Cicero, the Stoics, St. Paul, and Butler, 83
Consequences, remote, weakness of the utilitarian doctrine of, i. 42-44
“Consolations,” literature of, leading topics of, i. 204
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