 | 1823 - 862 стор.
...been diminished by constant pressure on their limbs. This diminutive stature of mankind was constantly sinking below the old standard, and the Roman world was indeed peopled by a rare of pigmies; when the fierce giants of the north broke in and mended the puny breed. They restored... | |
 | William Smyth - 1840 - 450 стор.
...so. " The stature of mankind," says the great historian, " was daily sinking below the old standard, when the fierce giants of the north broke in, and mended the puny breed." They certainly engrafted upon the European character those manly virtues, that have given purity to our... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 стор.
...wrote with the same freedom as they acted." 111 This diminutive stature of mankind, if we pursue the metaphor, was daily sinking below the old standard,...freedom became the happy parent of taste and science. 111 Longin. de Sublim. c. 44, p. 229, edit. Toll. Here, too, we may say of Longinus, " hia own example... | |
 | William Smyth - 1855 - 590 стор.
...so. " The stature of mankind," says the great historian, " was daily sinking below the old standard, when the fierce giants of the north broke in, and mended the puny breed." They certainly engrafted upon the European character those manly virtues, that have given purity to our... | |
 | William Smyth - 1855 - 588 стор.
...so. " The stature of mankind," says the great historian, " was daily sinking below the old standard, when the fierce giants of the north broke in, and mended the puny breed." They certainly engrafted upon the European character those manly virtues, that have given purity to our... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 стор.
...government, wrote with the same freedom as they acted." This diminutive stature of mankind, if we pursue the metaphor, was daily sinking below the old standard,...freedom became the happy parent of taste and science. 1 Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. XVIII. HORACE WALPOLE. HOKACE WALPOLE was born in 1718. He was the youngest... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 стор.
...stature of mankind, if we pursue the metaphor, was daily sinking below the old standard, and the Eoman world was indeed peopled by a race of pigmies, when...freedom became the happy parent of taste and science. 1 Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. 352 HORACE WALPOLE. XVIII. HORACE WALPOLE. HORACE WALPOLE was born in... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 604 стор.
...* * * The diminutive stature of mankind among the Romans was sinking daily below the old standard, when the fierce giants of the north broke in and mended the puny breed, restoring a manly spirit of freedom which in time became the happy parent of taste and science." with... | |
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metaphor, was daily sinking below the old standard, and the Roman world was indeed peopled by a race of pigmies, when the fierce giants of the north broke in and mended the puny breed. They restored a manly spirit of freedom; and, after the revolution... 
