The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1J. Murray, 1887 - Byzantine Empire |
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... respectively . In using the valuable materials thus placed at his disposal by the kindness of Dean Milman , the Editor has adhered to the prin- ciples mentioned above , and has therefore omitted several notes which seemed to him ...
... respectively . In using the valuable materials thus placed at his disposal by the kindness of Dean Milman , the Editor has adhered to the prin- ciples mentioned above , and has therefore omitted several notes which seemed to him ...
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... respective authors : Dean Milman's being marked M. M. Guizot's , G .; M. Wenck's , W .; and the present Editor's , S. The Autobiography of Gibbon is prefixed to the present edition , not only on account of the admirable manner in which ...
... respective authors : Dean Milman's being marked M. M. Guizot's , G .; M. Wenck's , W .; and the present Editor's , S. The Autobiography of Gibbon is prefixed to the present edition , not only on account of the admirable manner in which ...
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... respective places ; and much use has been made , in the later volumes particularly , of the increase to our stores of Oriental litera- ture . The editor cannot , indeed , pretend to have followed his author in these gleanings over the ...
... respective places ; and much use has been made , in the later volumes particularly , of the increase to our stores of Oriental litera- ture . The editor cannot , indeed , pretend to have followed his author in these gleanings over the ...
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... respective property , that for the most part I have quoted them without distinction , under the general and well - known title of the Augustan History . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION . THE History of the Decline and Fall of ...
... respective property , that for the most part I have quoted them without distinction , under the general and well - known title of the Augustan History . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION . THE History of the Decline and Fall of ...
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... their oppressors , who required no evidence , would listen to no defence . It had been at first proposed that one - eighth of their respective estates should be allowed for the future support of 10 MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS .
... their oppressors , who required no evidence , would listen to no defence . It had been at first proposed that one - eighth of their respective estates should be allowed for the future support of 10 MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS .
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Page xxxii - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 41 - After laying down my pen. I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page viii - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Page 41 - I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 9 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
Page 67 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful...
Page 45 - ... and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season, in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.
Page 28 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 5 - Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth...