| Edward Gibbon - 1851 - 694 lapas
...wide and various prospect of desolation.8 The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither...greatness, the fall of Rome was the more awful and deplorable. " Her primeval state, such as she might appear in a remote age, when Evander ente.rtained... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 lapas
...the wide and various prospect of desolation. The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither...greatness, the fall of Rome was the more awful and deplorable. Her primaeval state, such as she might appear in a remote age, when Evander entertained... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 lapas
...wide and various prospect of desolation.f The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither...grave ; and it was agreed, that in proportion to her may be quoted with the same confidence as the Latin text of the Antiquities. 4. Annali d' Italia, eighteen... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 632 lapas
...wide and various prospect of desolation.f The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither...grave ; and it was agreed, that in proportion to her may be quoted with the same confidence as the Latin text of the Antiquities. 4. Annali <£ Italia,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 lapas
...Ibid. Ch. xlix. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ibid. Ch. Ixviii. Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man...which buries empires and cities in a common grave. Ibid. Ch. Ixxi. All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. ibid. Ch. Ixxi. On the approach... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 652 lapas
...ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudes' of his works, which buries empires and cities in a...greatness, the fall of Rome was the more awful and deplora ble. " Her primeval state, such as she might appear in a remote age, when Evander entertained... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 lapas
...des crimes Ql des malheurs. — Voltaire, L Jngfnu, CA.x. (1767). 2 Compare Clarendon, ante, p. 170. Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man...which buries empires and cities in a common grave. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. Ixxi. All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1876 - 652 lapas
...wide and various prospect of desolation.* The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of hia works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave ; and it was agreed, that in proportion... | |
| Education Ministry of - 1880 - 238 lapas
...judgment or discretion." — ADDISON. Or, " The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither...in proportion to her former greatness the fall of Kome was the more awful and deplorable." GIBBON. Write out all the verbs which occur in the passage,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1880 - 662 lapas
...ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudes" of his works, which buries empires and cities in a...greatness, the fall of Rome was the more awful and deplora ble. " Her primeval state, such as she might appear in a remote age, when Evander ente.rtained... | |
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