The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 |
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... affects to regret an unmanly attack upon one who was no longer able to defend himself ; but he is unwilling to part with the reputation to which he thought his pamphlet entitled , or to conceal the praise which Profeffor Heyne bestowed ...
... affects to regret an unmanly attack upon one who was no longer able to defend himself ; but he is unwilling to part with the reputation to which he thought his pamphlet entitled , or to conceal the praise which Profeffor Heyne bestowed ...
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... we confider him as employ- ing irony . He affects not to have believed that the ma- jority of English readers were fo fondly attached even to the the name and fhadow of Christianity ; and not to xxii LIFE AND WRITINGS OF.
... we confider him as employ- ing irony . He affects not to have believed that the ma- jority of English readers were fo fondly attached even to the the name and fhadow of Christianity ; and not to xxii LIFE AND WRITINGS OF.
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... affected moderation of the emperors , they permitted themselves to de- fpife , and fometimes to forget , the outlying coun- tries which had been left in the enjoyment of a barbarous independence ; and they gradually ufurped the licence ...
... affected moderation of the emperors , they permitted themselves to de- fpife , and fometimes to forget , the outlying coun- tries which had been left in the enjoyment of a barbarous independence ; and they gradually ufurped the licence ...
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... affected to despise the unpolished manners of the Roman conquerors , whilst they were compelled to respect their fu- perior wisdom and power " . Nor was the influ- ence of the Grecian language and fentiments confined to the narrow ...
... affected to despise the unpolished manners of the Roman conquerors , whilst they were compelled to respect their fu- perior wisdom and power " . Nor was the influ- ence of the Grecian language and fentiments confined to the narrow ...
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... affected to display their magnificence . The golden palace of Nero excited a juft in- dignation , but the vast extent of ground which had been ufurped by his felfifh luxury , was more nobly filled under the fucceeding reigns 7 ° See ...
... affected to display their magnificence . The golden palace of Nero excited a juft in- dignation , but the vast extent of ground which had been ufurped by his felfifh luxury , was more nobly filled under the fucceeding reigns 7 ° See ...
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Página xxx - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 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.
Página xxx - 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.
Página xxx - ... 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 i will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame...
Página v - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Página 47 - The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and respective influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile.
Página 44 - Rome by observing that the empire was above two thousand miles in breadth, from the wall of Antoninus and the northern limits of Dacia to Mount Atlas and the tropic of Cancer; that it extended in length more than three thousand miles, from the Western Ocean to the Euphrates; that it was situated in the finest part of the Temperate Zone, between the twenty-fourth and fifty-sixth degrees...
Página 131 - But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and, when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies.
Página 1 - The gentle, but powerful, influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.
Página 208 - ... revenge of Severus with the generous clemency of Fingal ; the timid and brutal cruelty of Caracalla, with the bravery, the tenderness, the elegant genius of Ossian; the mercenary chiefs who, from motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in a word, we contemplated the untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerate Romans, polluted with the mean vices...
Página vi - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.