The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Հատոր 6J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... person , or , at least , with his troops and treasures ; his base retreat dissolved their obligations ; and the sword , which had been the instrument of their victory , was the pledge and title of their just independence . It does not ...
... person , or , at least , with his troops and treasures ; his base retreat dissolved their obligations ; and the sword , which had been the instrument of their victory , was the pledge and title of their just independence . It does not ...
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... person , no longer found their companions in the evening camp . In darkness and disorder they were encompassed , assaulted , and overwhelmed by the innumerable hosts of Turks , who , in the art of war , were superior to the Christians ...
... person , no longer found their companions in the evening camp . In darkness and disorder they were encompassed , assaulted , and overwhelmed by the innumerable hosts of Turks , who , in the art of war , were superior to the Christians ...
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... person was seldom violated by the prof ne eyes of sub- jects or strangers . The Latin ambassadors have described their own introduction through a series of gloomy passages , and glittering porticos : the scene was enlivened by the warb ...
... person was seldom violated by the prof ne eyes of sub- jects or strangers . The Latin ambassadors have described their own introduction through a series of gloomy passages , and glittering porticos : the scene was enlivened by the warb ...
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... person and interest . While Noureddin lived , these ambitious Curds were the most humble of his slaves ; and the indiscreet murmurs of the divan were silenced by the prudent Ayub , who loudly protested that at the com- mand of the ...
... person and interest . While Noureddin lived , these ambitious Curds were the most humble of his slaves ; and the indiscreet murmurs of the divan were silenced by the prudent Ayub , who loudly protested that at the com- mand of the ...
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... person , but of such base renown , that his own brother Jeffrey was heard to exclaim , " Since they have made him a king , surely they would have made me a god ! " The choice was gene- rally blamed ; and the most powerful vassal ...
... person , but of such base renown , that his own brother Jeffrey was heard to exclaim , " Since they have made him a king , surely they would have made me a god ! " The choice was gene- rally blamed ; and the most powerful vassal ...
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Էջ 559 - 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. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea...
Էջ 543 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Էջ 498 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Էջ 497 - A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men.
Էջ 565 - ... and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.
Էջ 549 - The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise ; many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull Chronicle and a Rhetorical declamation ; three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect.
Էջ 550 - By such men every operation of peace and war, every principle of justice or policy, every question of authority and freedom, was attacked and defended ; and the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a school of civil prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian.
Էջ 523 - I need not blush at recollecting the object of my choice ; and though my love was disappointed of success, I am rather proud that I was once capable of feeling such a pure and exalted sentiment.
Էջ 509 - Scholars : in a Society where emulation without envy, ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity, incited industry, and awakened genius ; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a generous freedom of thought, was raised, encouraged, and pushed forward, by example, by commendation, and by authority.
Էջ 313 - Mahomet has been separately noticed; an important and visible object in the history of the times: but that enormous engine was flanked by two fellows almost of equal magnitude: the long order of the Turkish artillery was pointed against the walls; fourteen batteries thundered at once on the most accessible places; and of one of these it is ambiguously expressed that it was mounted with one hundred and thirty guns, or that it discharged one hundred and thirty bullets.