But effeminate luxury had killed it. Liberty had surrendered to despotism and the Romans had become slaves.

但是阴柔的奢华却终结了它的生命，自由向专制低下了头，于是罗马人成了奴隶。

She was ruling a heart with absolute despotism for the first time in her life.

她生平第一次以绝对的专制统治一颗心。

In the progress of despotism, the authority of the executive power gradually absorbs that of every other power in the state, and assumes to itself the management of every branch of revenue which is destined for any public purpose.

在专制主义的进程中，行政权力的权威逐渐吸收了国家中所有其他权力的权力，并承担了对用于任何公共目的的每一收入部门的管理。

It would be just as rational to declare, that the courtiers in France, when a destructive system of despotism had formed their character, were not men, because liberty, virtue, and humanity, were sacrificed to pleasure and vanity.

同样合理的说法是， 当破坏性的专制制度形成了法国的廷臣们的性格时， 他们就不再是人了， 因为自由、美德和人性被享乐和虚荣所牺牲。

For example, the German historians are convinced that Rome was synonymous with despotism and that the Germanic peoples brought the spirit of liberty into the world: what is the difference between this conviction and a lie?

例如，德国历史学家坚信罗马是专制的同义词，日耳曼民族将自由精神带到了世界：这种信念谎言有什么区别？

They were interested in China for its administration and Kenny wrote a treatise, which we will roughly translate as the enlightened despotism of the Chinese, although they didn't mean despotism in a particularly bad sense.

他们对中国的行政管理感兴趣， 肯尼写了一篇论文，我们大致可以翻译为《中国的开明专制》，尽管他们并非在特别负面的意义使用“专制” 这词。

The thing ended, however, in the consolidation of the thirteen states with some fifteen or twenty others in the most odious and insupportable despotism that was ever heard of upon the face of the earth.

然而，这一过程最终导致了十三另外十五到二十合并，形成了地球前所未闻的最令人憎恶且无法忍受的专制统治。

Over the next ten years he engaged in a wide-ranging programme of reform which eclipsed his mother's own efforts, one which has led to him being viewed as a paragon of 'enlightened despotism'.

在接下来的十年里， 他开展了一项广泛的改革计划， 超越了母亲的努力，这使得他被视为“开明专制” 的典范。

I maintain that despotism is the best kind of government for them; so that in the hours in which I come in contact with them I must necessarily be an autocrat.

我认为专制对他们来说是最好的政府；因此，在我他们接触的时间里，我必然是一独裁者。

So, all notions that the British were trying to do their colonial enterprise out of enlightened despotism to try and bring the benefits of colonialism and civilisation to the benighted.

因此， 所有的想法认为英国人试图从开明的专制主义中进行他们的殖民企业，试图将殖民主义和文明的好处带给愚昧的人。

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submission on the other.

整主子奴隶之间的交易是一种持续不断的狂热情感宣泄，一边是专制独裁， 另一边是降格顺从。

He says that a revolution may, perhaps, bring about the fall of an autocratic despotism, but it can never bring about the true reform of a way of thinking.

他说，革命或许可以推翻一专制独裁政权，但永远无法真正改变一种思维方式。

During his time there had been a rule of 'enlightened despotism, ' similar to that in the reign of Louis XIV almost 100 years earlier.

在他的时代，有一种“开明的专制”统治，类似于将近 100 年前路易十四统治时期的统治。

Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, and to render " assurance doubly sure, " one kind of despotism supports another.

服从，无条件的服从，是形形色色的暴君的口号，为了使“保证更加可靠”，一种专制主义支持另一种专制主义。

While their opponents accused them of despotism, wanting to maintain absolute power in the central government, their real motives were mostly practical.

尽管对手指责他们专制，企图在中央政府中保持绝对权力，但他们的真实动机大多是出于实际考虑。

In that little phrase, as in a seed, is contained the germ of all despotism and of all tyranny.

在那短短的一句话中， 就像在种子中一样，包含着一切专制和一切暴政的萌芽。

Is it not the same despotism which gave rise to the Inquisition and the executions of the Great Revolution?

引起宗教裁判所和大革命处决的不是同一种专制主义吗？

La Grande Nanon was perhaps the only human being capable of accepting willingly the despotism of her master.

大子娜侬也许是唯一一自愿接受主人专制的人。

He writes then it is possible to subsequently build a bureaucracy without veering inevitably into autocracy or despotism.

他写道，随后有可能建立一官僚机构而不必不可避免地走向专制或暴政。

At that time, almost all countries in Europe were under an absolute monarchy system, and the purpose of the " Great Revolution" was to overthrow despotism.

当时， 欧洲几乎所有国家处于君主专制之下，“大革命” 的目的是推翻专制。