emperors

• “The designs of the Roman government were repeatedly baffled by his artful delays, ambiguous promises, and apparent concessions; and the interposition of his formidable confederate, the king of the Huns, recalled the emperors from the conquest of Africa to the care of their domestic safety.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “But time and again emperors, from the Ming to the Maoist, have been able to establish tyrannical centralized rule and shut down trade, diversity and experiment.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Triumph of The Idea Smugglers

• “Thy power, I fancy, or that of thy predecessors, who in name alone are called emperors of the Romans and are it not in reality, was sleeping at that time.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Early Middle Ages 500-1000

• “After having criticised to her heart's content her neighbours, including under that title emperors and grand-dukes, and having abundantly multiplied the et ceteras, Princess Gulof suddenly turned the conversation to physiology: this science, whose depths she believed herself to have fathomed, was, in her estimation, the secret of everything, the Alpha and Omega of human life.”

  Samuel Brohl and Company

• “A series of bloody and undecisive combats is nothing more than an anticipation of what would have been effected in a few years by the course of nature; but I shall briefly prosecute the conquests of the two emperors from the hills of Cappadocia to the desert of Bagdad.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Egypt, or Spain, the kings of France and Italy, and the Latin emperors of ancient Rome.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Moreover, we find that Pliny, and other ancient authors, report a multitude of rescripts of the emperors from the time of Augustus.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Some considerations of religion, or loyalty, or fear, protected the sacred persons of the emperors from the zeal or resentment of the bishops; but they boldly censured and excommunicated the subordinate tyrants, who were not invested with the majesty of the purple.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “We have never been ruled by the equivalent of what you call emperors and dictators. ”

  The Man Who Used the Universe

• “We are dealing with a country that was built upon thousands of years of brutal dictatorships known as emperors which are celebrated.”

  Heat rises on the China-U.S. relationship

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