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Side xliv
... mind , but I was unwilling to injure or offend the purchasers of the preceding editions . The accuracy of the corrector of the press has been already tried and approved ; and perhaps I may stand excused if , amidst the avocations of a ...
... mind , but I was unwilling to injure or offend the purchasers of the preceding editions . The accuracy of the corrector of the press has been already tried and approved ; and perhaps I may stand excused if , amidst the avocations of a ...
Side xlvi
... mind , and the felicity of his incomparable temper . LORD NORTH will permit me to express the feelings of friend- ship in the language of truth : but even truth and friendship should be silent , if he still dispensed the favours of the ...
... mind , and the felicity of his incomparable temper . LORD NORTH will permit me to express the feelings of friend- ship in the language of truth : but even truth and friendship should be silent , if he still dispensed the favours of the ...
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... mind , indolence is more painful than labour ; and the first months of my liberty will be occupied and amused in the ex- cursions of curiosity and taste . By such temptations I have been sometimes seduced from the rigid duty even of a ...
... mind , indolence is more painful than labour ; and the first months of my liberty will be occupied and amused in the ex- cursions of curiosity and taste . By such temptations I have been sometimes seduced from the rigid duty even of a ...
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... mind of Trajan . Like him , the Roman emperor undertook an expedi- tion against the nations of the east , but he lamented with a sigh that his advanced age scarcely left him any hopes of 15 Dion Cassius , 1. lxvii . [ 6 et sqq . ] . 16 ...
... mind of Trajan . Like him , the Roman emperor undertook an expedi- tion against the nations of the east , but he lamented with a sigh that his advanced age scarcely left him any hopes of 15 Dion Cassius , 1. lxvii . [ 6 et sqq . ] . 16 ...
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... minds were opened to any new impressions of knowledge and politeness . The language of Virgil and Cicero , though with some inevitable mixture of corruption , was so universally adopted in Africa , Spain , Gaul , Britain , and Pannonia ...
... minds were opened to any new impressions of knowledge and politeness . The language of Virgil and Cicero , though with some inevitable mixture of corruption , was so universally adopted in Africa , Spain , Gaul , Britain , and Pannonia ...
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Side 86 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Side 1 - In the second century of the Christian Era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
Side 191 - Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.
Side 33 - Such was the mild spirit of antiquity, that the nations were less attentive to the difference than to the resemblance of their religious worship. The Greek, the Roman, and the Barbarian, as they met before their respective altars, easily persuaded themselves, that under various names, and with various ceremonies, they adored the same deities.
Side 84 - His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Side 58 - The olive, in the western world, followed the progress of peace, of which it was considered as the symbol. Two centuries after the foundation of Rome, both Italy and Africa were strangers to that useful plant ; it was naturalized in those countries ; and at length carried into the heart of Spain and Gaul. The timid errors of the ancients, that it required a certain degree of heat, and could only flourish in the neighbourhood of the sea, were insensibly exploded by industry and experience.
Side 34 - Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to .assume; and they approached, with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.
Side 31 - 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 1 - ... of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.
Side 55 - The public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran in a direct line from one city to another, with very little respect for the obstacles either of nature or private property. Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams.