The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1J.A. James, 1841 |
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... expression ; all these high qualifications have secured , and seem likely to secure , its permanent place in historic literature . This vast design of Gibbon , the magnificent whole into which he cast the decay and ruin of the ancient ...
... expression ; all these high qualifications have secured , and seem likely to secure , its permanent place in historic literature . This vast design of Gibbon , the magnificent whole into which he cast the decay and ruin of the ancient ...
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... expressing the satisfaction which the performance has given me . Whether I consider the dignity of your style , the depth of your matter , or the extensiveness of your learning , I must regard the work as equally the object of esteem ...
... expressing the satisfaction which the performance has given me . Whether I consider the dignity of your style , the depth of your matter , or the extensiveness of your learning , I must regard the work as equally the object of esteem ...
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... expressions . I have traced him in many of his quotations ( for experience has taught me to suspect the accuracy of my brother- penmen ) , and I find he refers to no passage but what he has seen with his own eyes . I hope the book will ...
... expressions . I have traced him in many of his quotations ( for experience has taught me to suspect the accuracy of my brother- penmen ) , and I find he refers to no passage but what he has seen with his own eyes . I hope the book will ...
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... expression , of seven hundred and twenty - six horse , naturally connected with its re- spective legion , but occasionally separated to act in the line , and to com- pose a part of the wings of the army . ( 7 ) The cavalry of the ...
... expression , of seven hundred and twenty - six horse , naturally connected with its re- spective legion , but occasionally separated to act in the line , and to com- pose a part of the wings of the army . ( 7 ) The cavalry of the ...
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... expression might be intended , ( 2 ) there is not any reason to believe the country less populous in the age of the Anto- nines , than in that of Romulus . The petty states of Latium were con- tained within the metropolis of the empire ...
... expression might be intended , ( 2 ) there is not any reason to believe the country less populous in the age of the Anto- nines , than in that of Romulus . The petty states of Latium were con- tained within the metropolis of the empire ...
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