This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...some of those provinces which still remained to the Romans in Spain, together with his sister Placidia in marriage. Thus we see the Goths gradually uniting themselves with the empire, and acquiring a connexion by the rights of blood with those dominions of which they aspired at the possession. Honorius, much about the same time, allowed to the Burgundians, another tribe of northern barbarians, a just title to their conquests in Gaul. Ataulphus, the Goth, died soon after, recommending to his brother and successor See a very minute and curious picture of the state of Rome, and the manners of the Romans at this period, drawn by Mr. Gibbon, chiefly from Ammianus Marcelfinus (lib. xiv. c G, and lib. xxviii. c. 4.)--Gibbon's Rom. Hut. ch. 31. despicable as his to preserve the friendly alliance they had formed with the Romans. Meantime, Arcadius, in the East, was wholly governed by his emperess Eudoxia. This weak and dissolute prince died in the year 408, leaving the Eastern empire to his son Theodosius II., a child of seven years of age. Pulcheria, the elder sister of Theodosius, on the death of her father, took the sole government of the empire, in the name of her infant brother. She was a prudent and intelligent princess. The Eastern empire enjoyed under her administrat ion, which the weakness of her brother allowed to be of forty years' continuance, all the blessings of good order and tranquillity. At this time (the beginning of the fifth century) in the west of Europe, is supposed to have been laid the foundation of the French monarchy by Pharamond. But of this, and the doubts attending the existence of this prince, we shall afterward treat more particularly under the first period of modern history. Honorius died in the year 423. The death of a weak and of a ...