The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Byzantine Empire |
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... last four years of Queen Anne , and was praised by Lord Bolingbroke for his knowledge of commerce and finance . He was elected one of the directors of the unfortunate South Sea Company , in the year 1716 , at which time he had acquired ...
... last four years of Queen Anne , and was praised by Lord Bolingbroke for his knowledge of commerce and finance . He was elected one of the directors of the unfortunate South Sea Company , in the year 1716 , at which time he had acquired ...
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... last years , although fickness interrupted a regular course of inftruction , his fondness for books had increased , and he was permitted to indulge it by ranging over the shelves without plan or de- fign . This indifcriminate appetite ...
... last years , although fickness interrupted a regular course of inftruction , his fondness for books had increased , and he was permitted to indulge it by ranging over the shelves without plan or de- fign . This indifcriminate appetite ...
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... last age of the Western Cæfars . The subsidiary rays of medals and inscriptions , of geography and chronology , were thrown on their pro- per objects ; and I applied the collections of Tillemont , whose inimitable accuracy almost ...
... last age of the Western Cæfars . The subsidiary rays of medals and inscriptions , of geography and chronology , were thrown on their pro- per objects ; and I applied the collections of Tillemont , whose inimitable accuracy almost ...
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... last feelings , he thus fpeaks : " Let me frankly own that I was startled at the first discharge of ecclefiafti- cal ordnance ; but as foon as I found that this empty noise was mifchievous only in the intention , my fear was con- verted ...
... last feelings , he thus fpeaks : " Let me frankly own that I was startled at the first discharge of ecclefiafti- cal ordnance ; but as foon as I found that this empty noise was mifchievous only in the intention , my fear was con- verted ...
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... last events of his life are thus related by his biographer . " After I left him , on Tuesday afternoon ( Jan. 14 . 1794 ) he faw fome company , Lady Lucan and Lady Spencer , and thought himself well enough at night to omit the opium ...
... last events of his life are thus related by his biographer . " After I left him , on Tuesday afternoon ( Jan. 14 . 1794 ) he faw fome company , Lady Lucan and Lady Spencer , and thought himself well enough at night to omit the opium ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.