The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on HistoryAdams, Brooks
Philosophy
The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History
Adams, Brooks
Civilization -- History; Degeneration; History -- Philosophy
[374] _Report of the Commission, etc._, 25, 26.
[375] _Ibid._, 167.
[376] _Report of the Commission, etc._, 168.
[377] See _Musalmans and Money-lenders in the Punjab_,
Thorburn.
[378] _Report of the Commission, etc._, 168.
[379] See _Brief History of the Indian Peoples_, Hunter, 50.
[380] See _History of the Romans_, ed. of 1852, Merivale, ii.
81, where the authorities are collected.
[381] Plutarch’s _Lives_, Clough’s trans., iv. 123.
[382] _Ibid._, 298.
[383] _Ibid._, 142.
[384] Genesis xxxiv. 11, 12.
[385] Aristotle, _Pol._, ii. 9.
[386] Plutarch’s _Lives_, Clough’s trans., iv. 507.
[387] _Faery Queene_, Spenser, iv. 5, 1.
[388] _Entretiens sur l’Architecture_, i. 102.
[389] _Ann._, xv. 44.
[390] _Ann._, xv. 44.
[391] _Marc-Aurèle_, Renan, 600.
[392] Tertullian, _Ad Scapulam_, 5.
[393] _L’Antechrist_, 163 _et seq._
[394] _Études sur l’Histoire de l’Art_, Vitet, i. 200.
[395] _L’Art de Batir chez les Byzantins_, Choisy, 5, 6.
[396] _Recherches pour servir à l’Histoire de la Peinture et de
la Sculpture Chrétiennes en Orient_, Bayet, 99.
[397] _Ibid._, 99.
[398] _Buildings of Justinian_, Procopius, trans. by Stewart,
i. 1.
[399] _Ibid._
[400] _Dictionnaire de l’Architecture_, Art. “Peinture.”
[401] _Entretiens_, i. 102.
INDEX
Acre: siege of 130;
defence of by Templars 171.
Alaric: served in Roman army 61.
Alexander, Emperor of Russia: breach with Napoleon 324.
Alexis: treats with crusaders 139;
death of 143.
Anastasius: wealth of 51;
builds long wall 51.
Anglicanism, _see_ Church of England.
Antwerp: rise of 201;
centre of exchanges 201;
sack of 287.
Architecture: Italian 88;
Gothic 89;
Byzantine 89;
Saracenic 90;
crusading 100;
Greek and Roman 372;
Byzantine 375 _et seq._;
Gothic 378;
modern 382;
_see_ Ogive.
Armada: defeated by yeomen 256;
loss of 287.
Army, _see_ Police.
Art: decline of 380, 381;
_see_ Architecture.
Articles, ecclesiastical: Six 232, 268;
Forty-two 262;
Lambeth 268.
Attila: ransoms Constantinople 50;
vision of 63.
Aureus: depreciation of 27;
passes by weight 31.
Baldwin, Count of Edessa: 105;
King of Jerusalem 105.
Baldwin, Emperor of the East: 146;
reproved by Innocent 147.
Bank of England: incorporated 303;
early issues of 319;
suspends cash payments 327;
policy of prior to 1810 327;
resumes specie payments 330;
hoards gold 331–333;
paper in panic of 1825 335;
Bank Act of 1844 336;
suspension of Bank Act 344.
Bank of Genoa: 168.
Bank of Venice: 168, 169.
Bankers: mediæval 168;
increase of English country after 1760 319;
poor credit of 320;
increase issues in 1823 333;
rise of great modern houses 321;
policy of 328;
supremacy of 344;
absolute government by 353.
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