 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 274 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Thorpe - 1987 - 202 páginas
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 | Mari Smits - 1988 - 182 páginas
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 | Herman Melville - 1991 - 290 páginas
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 | 1994 - 376 páginas
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 | Martin Thom - 1995 - 372 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
