The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1G. Virtue, 1899 |
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... expression and conciseness of arrangement . Such modes of thought and expression are the more remarked in the first volumes of Gibbon , that he is careful to make them conspicuous by contrasts , of which , while the design is somewhat ...
... expression and conciseness of arrangement . Such modes of thought and expression are the more remarked in the first volumes of Gibbon , that he is careful to make them conspicuous by contrasts , of which , while the design is somewhat ...
Side 78
... expression is probably stolen from some better writer . x Herodian , 1. viii . p . 287 , 288 . y Quia non alius erat in præsenti , is the expression of the Augus- tan History . z Quintus Curtius ( 1. x . c . 9 ) pays an elegant ...
... expression is probably stolen from some better writer . x Herodian , 1. viii . p . 287 , 288 . y Quia non alius erat in præsenti , is the expression of the Augus- tan History . z Quintus Curtius ( 1. x . c . 9 ) pays an elegant ...
Side 585
... expression , faithfully represent the character of a sovereign who loved his people , who sympathized in their distress , who had studied the causes of the decline of the empire , and who was capable of applying ( as far as such ...
... expression , faithfully represent the character of a sovereign who loved his people , who sympathized in their distress , who had studied the causes of the decline of the empire , and who was capable of applying ( as far as such ...
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