The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Том 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 |
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Edward Gibbon. 1 1 Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx ! EDWARD GIBBON , ESQ Published March 21807. by Cadell & Davies , Strand . W. Evans sculpt THE HTSTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN.
Edward Gibbon. 1 1 Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx ! EDWARD GIBBON , ESQ Published March 21807. by Cadell & Davies , Strand . W. Evans sculpt THE HTSTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN.
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... March 1ft , 1782 - ended June 1784 . The Vth volume , begun July 1784 - ended May 1ft , 1786 . The VIth volume , begun May 18th , 1786 — ended June 27th , 1787 . These three volumes were fent to press , Aug. 15th , 1787 , and the whole ...
... March 1ft , 1782 - ended June 1784 . The Vth volume , begun July 1784 - ended May 1ft , 1786 . The VIth volume , begun May 18th , 1786 — ended June 27th , 1787 . These three volumes were fent to press , Aug. 15th , 1787 , and the whole ...
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... occupation of my leisure hours . BENTINCK - STREET , March 1 , 1781 . An Author eafily perfuades himself that the public opinion is ftill favourable to his labours ; 4 3 labours ; and I have now embraced the serious xlii PREFACE .
... occupation of my leisure hours . BENTINCK - STREET , March 1 , 1781 . An Author eafily perfuades himself that the public opinion is ftill favourable to his labours ; 4 3 labours ; and I have now embraced the serious xlii PREFACE .
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... facts , as may ftill appear either interefting or important . BENTINCK - STREET , March 1 , 1782 . 3 The first fix volumes of the octavo edition . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION . THE Hiftory of PREFACE . xliii.
... facts , as may ftill appear either interefting or important . BENTINCK - STREET , March 1 , 1782 . 3 The first fix volumes of the octavo edition . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST OCTAVO EDITION . THE Hiftory of PREFACE . xliii.
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... Legions under the Emperors 19 Arms 20 Cavalry 22 Auxiliaries 23 Artillery 24 Encampment 25 March 26 Number and Difpofition of the Legions Navy 27 28 Amount of the whole Establishment 30 A. D. View of the Provinces of the Roman Empire View.
... Legions under the Emperors 19 Arms 20 Cavalry 22 Auxiliaries 23 Artillery 24 Encampment 25 March 26 Number and Difpofition of the Legions Navy 27 28 Amount of the whole Establishment 30 A. D. View of the Provinces of the Roman Empire View.
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Сторінка xxx - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 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.
Сторінка xxx - 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.
Сторінка xxx - ... 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 i will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame...
Сторінка v - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Сторінка 47 - The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and respective influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile.
Сторінка 44 - Rome by observing that the empire was above two thousand miles in breadth, from the wall of Antoninus and the northern limits of Dacia to Mount Atlas and the tropic of Cancer; that it extended in length more than three thousand miles, from the Western Ocean to the Euphrates; that it was situated in the finest part of the Temperate Zone, between the twenty-fourth and fifty-sixth degrees...
Сторінка 131 - But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and, when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies.
Сторінка 1 - The gentle, but powerful, influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.
Сторінка 208 - ... revenge of Severus with the generous clemency of Fingal ; the timid and brutal cruelty of Caracalla, with the bravery, the tenderness, the elegant genius of Ossian; the mercenary chiefs who, from motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in a word, we contemplated the untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerate Romans, polluted with the mean vices...
Сторінка vi - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.