 | Thomas Thornton - 1807 - 484 lehte
...•when the Roman historians were celebrating the blessingsof Trajan's government, " the splendour of the cities, the beautiful face of the country, cultivated and adorned like an immense garden,'* the latent cause of decay and corruption, " the uniform govern* Tab. G£n. V. ii. p. 483. " Hence,... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1809 - 560 lehte
...time when the Roman historians were celebrating the blessings of Trajan's government, " the splendour. of the cities, the beautiful face of the country, cultivated and adorned like an immense garden," the latent cause of decay and corruption, " the uniform government of the Romans " was gradually -reducing... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - 382 lehte
...improvement of arts, the human species is visibly multiplied. They celebrate the increasing splendour of the cities, the beautiful face of the country — cultivated and adorned like a garden — and the long festival of peace, which is enjoyed by so many nations, forgetful of their... | |
 | D. Davidson - 1844 - 284 lehte
...improvement of arts the human species was visibly multiplied. They celebrate the increasing splendour of the cities, the beautiful face of the country,...be suggested by the air of rhetoric and declamation in these passages, the substance of them is perfectly agreeable to historic truth." Reflect, then,... | |
 | David Davidson - 1849 - 812 lehte
...improvement of arts the human species was visibly multiplied. They celebrate the increasing splendour of the cities, the beautiful face of the country,...was enjoyed by so many nations, forgetful of their an cient animosities, and delivered from the apprehension of future danger. Whatever suspicions may... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 lehte
...increase of the arts, the human species has visibly multiplied. They celebrate the increasing beauty of the cities, the beautiful face of the country,...animosities, and delivered from the apprehension of future danger."t Ancient as well as modern historians are full of complaints, in the later periods of the... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 lehte
...increase of the arts, the human species has visibly multiplied. They celebrate the increasing beauty of the cities, the beautiful face of the country,...animosities, and delivered from the apprehension of future danger."-)Ancient as well as modern historians are full of complaints, in the later periods of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 lehte
...improvement of " arts, the human species was visibly multiplied. They celebrate the " increasing splendour of the cities, the beautiful face of the country,...animosities, and delivered from the apprehension of " future danger."109 Whatever suspicions may be suggested by the air of rhetoric and declamation which seems... | |
 | David Davidson - 1857 - 804 lehte
...improvement of arts the human species was visibly multiplied. They celebrate the increasing splendour of the cities, the beautiful face of the country,...be suggested by the air of rhetoric and declamation in these passages, the substance of them is perfectly agreeable to historic truth." Reflect, then,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 lehte
...improvement of arts, the human species was visibly multiplied. They celebrate the increasing splendour of the cities, the beautiful face of the country,...of them is perfectly agreeable to historic truth. It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the... | |
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... established by the power of Rome, under whose auspicious influence the fiercest barbarians were united by an equal government and common language. They affirm, that with the improvement of arts, the human species was visibly multiplied. They celebrate... 
