 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...gratefully style Herodes Atticus their patron and benefactor ** In the coHHtionwealtJis of Athetis and Rome, the modest simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition of freedom; whilst the so- public UK ( vereignty of the people was represented in the Sre°' majestic edifices destined to... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 694 pages
...my conjecture confirmed by the following beautiful passage : In the commonwealth of Athens and Rome, the modest simplicity of private houses announced...was represented in the majestic edifices destined to the public use. Nor was trus republican spirit totally extinguished by the introduction of wealth... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...give the parallel in the words of the historian of Rome. ' In the commonwealths of Athens and Rome, the modest simplicity of private houses announced...the people was represented in the majestic edifices designed to the public use ; nor was this republican spirit totally extinguished by the introduction... | |
 | Sir William Gell, John Peter Gandy - Extinct cities - 1821 - 496 pages
...to our recollection a passage of Gibbon; who remarks, that "In the commonwealth of Athens and Rome, the modest simplicity of private houses announced...whilst the sovereignty of the people was represented by the majestice difices dest1ned to public use.'' The part to the right had perhaps a second order,... | |
 | Sir William Gell - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1824 - 268 pages
...to our recollection a passage of Gibbon; who remarks, that "In the commonwealth of Athens and Rome, the modest simplicity of private houses announced...equal condition of freedom ; whilst the sovereignty of tie people was represented by the majestice difices destined to public use." The part to the right... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...Mediterranean and the banks of the Nile, from ancient Troy to " In the commonwealths of Athens and Rome, the modest simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition of freedom ; whilstthe sovereignty of thu people was represented in th'; majestic edifices destined to the public... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...Athens and Rome the modes and simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition of freemen, whilst the sovereignty of the people was represented in the majestic edifices designed to the public use; every part of the empire was fitted with ample theatres, temples, porticoes,... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...Athens and Rome the modes and simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition of freemen, whilst the sovereignty of the people was represented in the majestic edifices designed to the public use ; every part of the empire was fitted with ample theatres, temples, porticoes,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...Athens and Rome the modes and simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition of freemen, whilst the sovereignty of the people was represented in the majestic edifices designed to the public use ; every part of the empire was fitted with ample theatres, temples, porticoes,... | |
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... nor was this republican spirit totally extinguished by the introduction of wealth and monarchy. It was in works of national honour and benefit that the most virtuous of the emperors affected to display their magnificence. 
