 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1900 - 716 pages
...Mamalukes, Syria was supposed to contain sixty thousand villages (Histoire de Timur Bee, 1. vo 20) VOL. L-4 from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded...carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from... | |
 | William Forsyth - Abernethy and Kincardine (Scotland : Parish) - 1900 - 488 pages
...The Romans were the great road-makers. Their roads started from the' golden pillar in the Forum at Rome, "traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and...were terminated only by the frontiers of the Empire." Gibbon says : — " The public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran in a direct line... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1906 - 480 pages
...with reluctance to the majesty of Rome itself. All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing...carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1909 - 612 pages
...xviii. Aristides pronounced an oration which is still extant, to recommend concord to the rival cities. the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing...carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from... | |
 | Paul Revere Frothingham - Unitarianism - 1917 - 128 pages
...wherever they penetrated. Says the familiar Gibbon: "All Roman cities were connected with each other and with the Capital by the public highways which, issuing...were terminated only by the frontiers of the Empire." Along these roads imperial messengers continually made their way. They passed through Ephesus and Tarsus,... | |
 | James Boyd White - Communication in law - 1985 - 274 pages
...passage he describes thus: Fact, Fiction, and Value All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing...carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1032 pages
...far-flung Roman empire in Its prime, Gibbon says: "All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which issuing...carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...with reluctance to the majesty of Rome itself. All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing...carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 732 pages
...with reluctance, to the majesty of Rome itself." "All these cities were connected with each other and with the capital, by the public highways, which issuing...provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers «f the empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence... | |
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All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire. If we carefully trace... 
