 But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 460edited by - 1782Full view - About this book
 | Assistant Professor of History Jeremy Adelman, Jeremy Adelman - Latin America - 2006 - 432 pages
...their imaginations too hard to recognize themselves in Gibbon's words about Constantine's capital: "the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principles of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1911 - 312 pages
...represent the nations and their kings, were successively broken by the iron monarchy of Rome. . . . " But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the... | |
 | 1895 - 776 pages
...degeneracy made the gradual conquest and final subversion of the Western Empire an easy task. — Clare. The Decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the... | |
 | Rosamond McKitterick, Roland Quinault - History - 2002 - 376 pages
...contrast, the prudent cession of territory by the more pacific Hadrian was praised.73 More generally, 'the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness';74 a conventional view of the period.75 Conquest had a similar effect on the Arabs: Had... | |
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