...by ancient renown and difciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners bad gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abuled the advantages of wealth and luxu ry. T.be image of a free conllitution was preferved with decent...

...proper ornament of her sex. GIBBON. • In the second century of the Christian xrathc empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of' the earth, and the...gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peartfut inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution...

...our eyes upon a map, we shall directly see that it comprehended, as an elegant historian remarks, " the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind."* During this period, however, very considerable additions were made to the empire, and I believe, more...

...B. GILPIN. 1850. pp. xix.— 237. " In the second century of the Christian «ern, the empire of Home comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the...enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury." Such is the language of Gibbon, when commencing his celebrated work on " The Decline and Fall of the...

...our eyes upon a map, we shall directly see, that it comprehended, as an elegant historian remarks, " the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind."* t Gibbon.* * Though Gibbon has some excellences besides his " elegance," tht jioung rsader must be...

...pre-eminence which civilization gives in war and in policy, to a still higher pitch. " Their empire comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind," and king! and tetrarchs were glad to become their clients and ictaineie That these jui/ vilcgod and...

...oar eyes upon a map, we shall directly see, that it compW bended, ea en elegant historian remarks, "the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind."* During this period, however, very considerable additions were made to the empire, and I believe, more...

...transcribe it from Mr. Bowdler's edition. ' In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the...provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abutted the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent...

...proper ornament of her sex. GIBBON. In the second century of the Christian aera th« empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the...mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy «•ere- guarded by ancient renown und disciplined valour. Тле gentle but powerful influence of...

...Euphrates, and from the deserts of Africa to the Rhine and the Danube, comprehending, as Gibbon says, the fairest part of the earth and the most civilized portion of mankind. As the sea receives the rivers, says Niebuhr, so the history of Rome receives into itself that of all...