The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1Alex. Murray & Son, 1869 |
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... virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism , is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members . Such a sentiment , which had rendered ...
... virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism , is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members . Such a sentiment , which had rendered ...
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... virtue was oppressed by luxury and despotism . If , in the consideration of their armies , we pass from their discipline to their numbers , we shall not find it easy to define them with any toler- able accuracy . We may compute ...
... virtue was oppressed by luxury and despotism . If , in the consideration of their armies , we pass from their discipline to their numbers , we shall not find it easy to define them with any toler- able accuracy . We may compute ...
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... virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found , among slaves or strangers , enemies or barbarians.4 During the most flourishing æra of the Athenian commonwealth , the number of citizens gradually decreased from about thirty 5 ...
... virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found , among slaves or strangers , enemies or barbarians.4 During the most flourishing æra of the Athenian commonwealth , the number of citizens gradually decreased from about thirty 5 ...
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... virtue , as well as happiness , of mankind , if all possessed the necessaries , and none the superfluities , of life . But in the present im- perfect condition of society , luxury , though it may proceed from vice or folly , seems to be ...
... virtue , as well as happiness , of mankind , if all possessed the necessaries , and none the superfluities , of life . But in the present im- perfect condition of society , luxury , though it may proceed from vice or folly , seems to be ...
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... virtue . Cæsar had provoked his fate , as much by the ostentation of his power , as by his power itself . I Dion Cassius , 1. liii . p . 710. with the curious Annotations of Reymar . 2 As Octavianus advanced to the banquet of the Cæsars ...
... virtue . Cæsar had provoked his fate , as much by the ostentation of his power , as by his power itself . I Dion Cassius , 1. liii . p . 710. with the curious Annotations of Reymar . 2 As Octavianus advanced to the banquet of the Cæsars ...
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