 | Pasquale J. Accardo - 2002 - 340 páginas
...that most 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... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Louis Wilken - 2003 - 244 páginas
...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. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence;... | |
 | John C. Bogle - 2005 - 292 páginas
...frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valor. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually...constitution was preserved with decent reverence." 410 AD the Imperial City was delivered to the licentious tribes of Germany and Sythia. Why did the... | |
 | Joseph Gilbert Manning, Ian Morris - 2005 - 310 páginas
...frontiers of the 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. — Edward Gibbon Introduction Edward Gibbon's verdict on the second-century Roman Empire may now seem... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 2005 - 552 páginas
...being separated in its virtue, it was exposed to corruption. There was a 'union of the provinces', but 'their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury'. The paired verbs form the first in a long series of Gibbonian counterweights, and tell us that there is... | |
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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. 
