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" Thus resolved, they all for some time showed their spirit, and kept their word ; but soon they found, that instead of mortifying the belly by these means, they only undid themselves ; they languished for a while, and perceived, when too late, that it... "
A History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire - Page 104
by Henry George Liddell - 1855
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The Roman history ... to the destruction of the western empire, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1769 - 590 pages
...belly by thefe means, they only undid themfelves ; they languiflaed fora while, and perceived, when too late, that it was owing to the belly, that they had ftrength to work or courage to mutiny." This fable, the application of which is obvious, had an inftantaneous...
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Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome, to the ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1781 - 332 pages
...belly by thefe means, they only undid themfelves; they languished for a while, and perceived, when too late, that it was owing to the belly, that they had flrer.gth to work or courage to mutiny." This fable, the application of which is obvious, had an inftantaneous...
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Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to ...

William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1802 - 450 pages
...belly by these means, they only undid themselves ; they languished for a while, and perceived, when too late, that it was owing to the belly that they had strength to work, or courage to mutiny." This fable, the application of which is obvious, had an instantaneous effect...
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Goldsmith's Roman History

Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1802 - 288 pages
...the belly by thefe means, they only undid themfelves ; they languifhed fora while, and perceived when too late, that it was owing to the belly that they had ftrength to work, or courage to mutiny." This fable, the application of which is 'obvious, had an inftantaneous...
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Goldsmith's Roman History

Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1808 - 282 pages
...belly by these means, they only undid themselves ; they languished for a while, and perceiving when too late, that it was owing to the belly that they had strength to work, or courage to mutiny." This fable, the application of which is obvious, had an instantaneous effect...
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Goldsmith's Roman History

Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1818 - 262 pages
...the belly by these means, they only undid themselves; they languished fora while, and perceiving when too late, that it was owing to the belly that they had strergth to work, or spirit to mutiny." .This fable, the application of which is obvious, had an instantaneous...
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The history of Rome ... to the destruction of the western empire, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 418 pages
...belly by these means, they only undid them" selves ; they languished for a while, and perceived " when too late, that it was owing to the belly that they " had strength to work, or courage to mutiny." This fable, the application of which is obvious, had an instantaneous effect...
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Outlines of the History of Ancient Rome: Embracing Its Antiquities; on the ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Rome - 1828 - 360 pages
...mortifying the belly, they only injured themselves ; they languished for a while and perceived when too late that it was owing to the belly that they had strength to work, or courage to mutiny." This fable had instantaneous effect upon the people. They unanimously cried...
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The Rubicon; Or, Historical Allusions Familiarized,: In Sketches of Early ...

History, Ancient - 1830 - 210 pages
...mortifying the belly, they were destroying themselves ; they languished for a time, and found out, too late, that it was owing to the belly that they had strength to labour, or courage to rebel.' This fable had an immediate effect ; the people cried out, that Agrippa...
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The Family monitor

1831 - 548 pages
...belly by these means, they only undid themselves; they languished for a while, and perceived, when too late, that it was owing to the belly that they had strength to work and courage to mutiny." EXTRACT FROM THE SPECTATOR. MAN is a creature designed for two different states of being, or rather...
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