...frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle, but powerful, influence of laws and manners, had gradually...Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantage of wealth and luxury. I am sure you recognize in the foregoing, the sonorous periods of Gibbon....

...frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valor. The gentle, but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually...Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantage of wealth and luxury." I am sure you recognize in the foregoing, the sonorous periods of...

...frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valor. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. The peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury." A couple of hundred...

...of that extensive monarchy were guaranteed by ancient renown and disciplined valor. The gentle, but powerful, influence of laws and manners had gradually...enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury . . . During a happy period of more than fourscore years, the pubhe administration was conducted by...

...paragraph of the whole work, for example, that points to the "arts and luxuries" section in these words: "Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury' Notice how the word "peaceful," as was the case with "adorn," obtains in retrospect a complication...

...The conlrary proposition may also be identified, however, in Ihe Decline and Fall: The gentle, but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually...constitution was preserved with decent reverence. The Roman senate appeared to possess the sovreign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive...

...frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually...enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury." To me there resides a majestic cadence in such lines. I cannot judge whether this author has all his...

...frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle, but powerful, influence of laws and manners had gradually...constitution was preserved with decent reverence. The Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the...

...of that extensive monarchy were guaranteed by ancient renown and disciplined valor. The gentle, but powerful, influence of laws and manners had gradually...enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. . . . During a happy period of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by...

...of that extensive monarchy were guarded by a common religion and by the Royal Navy. The gentle, but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their free, white inhabitants enjoyed and produced the advantages of wealth and luxury . The image of a free...