The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1J. Murray, 1887 |
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Side iii
... ancient writers , and corrective and supplementary notes . On each of these points a few words of explanation are necessary . I. The text is carefully reprinted from the last quarto edition corrected by the Author . The work was ...
... ancient writers , and corrective and supplementary notes . On each of these points a few words of explanation are necessary . I. The text is carefully reprinted from the last quarto edition corrected by the Author . The work was ...
Side iv
... ancient writers , and to insert in brackets [ ] by the side of the original quotations , the books and chapters of the best modern editions . This is the first time that this laborious ask has been executed ; and it is evident that for ...
... ancient writers , and to insert in brackets [ ] by the side of the original quotations , the books and chapters of the best modern editions . This is the first time that this laborious ask has been executed ; and it is evident that for ...
Side vii
... ancient world , the spec- tacle of its expiring glory and degenerate manners ; the infancy of the modern world , the picture of its first progress , of the new direction given to the mind and character of man - such a subject must neces ...
... ancient world , the spec- tacle of its expiring glory and degenerate manners ; the infancy of the modern world , the picture of its first progress , of the new direction given to the mind and character of man - such a subject must neces ...
Side xix
... ancient Romans , had been long since forgotten . The writer who should undertake to relate the events of this period would find himself obliged to enter into the general history of the Crusades , as far as they contributed to the ruin ...
... ancient Romans , had been long since forgotten . The writer who should undertake to relate the events of this period would find himself obliged to enter into the general history of the Crusades , as far as they contributed to the ruin ...
Side 3
... ancient and worthy race . The satirist may laugh , the philosopher may preach , but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been con- secrated by the experience of mankind . Few there are who can sincerely ...
... ancient and worthy race . The satirist may laugh , the philosopher may preach , but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been con- secrated by the experience of mankind . Few there are who can sincerely ...
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Side xxxii - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Side 41 - 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.
Side viii - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Side 41 - I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. 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.
Side 9 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a school-boy would have been ashamed.
Side 67 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful...
Side 45 - ... 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.
Side 28 - 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.
Side 5 - Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal : their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth...