The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1George Bell and Sons, 1891 |
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Side viii
... present not to the reader those general views which enable him to survey , at a single glance , a wide extent of country or a long series of ages ; he cannot , amid the darkness of the past , distinguish clearly the progress of man ...
... present not to the reader those general views which enable him to survey , at a single glance , a wide extent of country or a long series of ages ; he cannot , amid the darkness of the past , distinguish clearly the progress of man ...
Side x
... present . His eye was never darkened by the mists which time gathers round the dead . He saw that man is ever the same , whether arrayed in the toga or in the dress of to - day , whether deliberating in the senate of old , or at the ...
... present . His eye was never darkened by the mists which time gathers round the dead . He saw that man is ever the same , whether arrayed in the toga or in the dress of to - day , whether deliberating in the senate of old , or at the ...
Side xxxiv
... present I shall content myself with a single observation . The biographers , who , under the reigns of Diocletian and Con- stantine , composed , or rather compiled , the lives of the emperors , from Hadrian to the sons of Carus , are ...
... present I shall content myself with a single observation . The biographers , who , under the reigns of Diocletian and Con- stantine , composed , or rather compiled , the lives of the emperors , from Hadrian to the sons of Carus , are ...
Side 2
... present exalted situation , had much less to hope than to fear from the chance of arms ; and that , in the prosecution of remote wars , the undertaking became every day more difficult , the event more doubtful , and the possession more ...
... present exalted situation , had much less to hope than to fear from the chance of arms ; and that , in the prosecution of remote wars , the undertaking became every day more difficult , the event more doubtful , and the possession more ...
Side 20
... present of nature ; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline . * Whenever the trumpet gave the signal of departure , the camp was almost instantly broke up , and the troops fell into their ranks without ...
... present of nature ; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline . * Whenever the trumpet gave the signal of departure , the camp was almost instantly broke up , and the troops fell into their ranks without ...
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