The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Byzantine Empire |
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... those who are capable of reflection fhould oftener indulge ; it relates to blessings which a thinking man will contemplate with no com- mon gratitude . " My lot , " he says , " might have been that of a flave , a favage , or a peafant ...
... those who are capable of reflection fhould oftener indulge ; it relates to blessings which a thinking man will contemplate with no com- mon gratitude . " My lot , " he says , " might have been that of a flave , a favage , or a peafant ...
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... those prejudices appear to have been conceived in his maturer years . This is , at least , sus- picious . When he fat down to write his Memoirs , the Memoirs of an eminent and accomplished scholar , he found a blank which is feldom ...
... those prejudices appear to have been conceived in his maturer years . This is , at least , sus- picious . When he fat down to write his Memoirs , the Memoirs of an eminent and accomplished scholar , he found a blank which is feldom ...
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... those predicaments . My own inclination , as well as the taste of the present age , have made me decide in favour of history . Convinced of its merit , my reafon cannot blush at the choice . But this is not all . Am I worthy of pursuing ...
... those predicaments . My own inclination , as well as the taste of the present age , have made me decide in favour of history . Convinced of its merit , my reafon cannot blush at the choice . But this is not all . Am I worthy of pursuing ...
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... those profpects which the various defigns he formed had pre- fented . He yet contemplated the Decline and Fall of Rome , but at an awful diftance ; and in the mean time , as fomething more within his grafp , he refumed his study of the ...
... those profpects which the various defigns he formed had pre- fented . He yet contemplated the Decline and Fall of Rome , but at an awful diftance ; and in the mean time , as fomething more within his grafp , he refumed his study of the ...
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... Travis addreffed " Letters to Edward Gib- bon , Efq . " which were answered by Mr. Profeffor Porfon , and produced a controverfy of confiderable warmth , In In addition to those antagonists , it may be mentioned EDWARD GIBBON , ESQ . XXV.
... Travis addreffed " Letters to Edward Gib- bon , Efq . " which were answered by Mr. Profeffor Porfon , and produced a controverfy of confiderable warmth , In In addition to those antagonists , it may be mentioned EDWARD GIBBON , ESQ . XXV.
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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.