| Daniel Wolsey Voorhees - 1898 - 478 páginas
...chain which bound the provinces to the center. "They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse ; but their primary...pervious to the arms and authority of the conqueror." Such were the ferocious purposes for which the most useful monuments of Roman industry were erected... | |
| Rome, Italy (City). British and American Archaeological Society - 1899 - 568 páginas
...yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse; but their primary...to the arms and authority of the conqueror. » The Roman roads, as Gibbon tells us, and as we all know, ran in a straight line from one place to another... | |
| William Forsyth - 1900 - 488 páginas
...either of nature, or of private propeity." ..." They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse, but their primary object had been to facilitate the marching of the legions, nor was any country considered as completely subdued till it had been rendered... | |
| George Johnson - 1903 - 518 páginas
...tributary provinces was preserved, Gibbon says : " They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse; but their primary...of the legions; nor was any country considered as subdued till it had been rendered, in all its parts, pervious to the arms and authority of the conqueror.... | |
| 1926 - 1032 páginas
...entirely yielded to the effort of 15 centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse; but their primary...pervious to the arms and authority of the conqueror." Along with the English common law, our forefathers brought over to this country the policy, prevailing... | |
| Clifford Ando - 2000 - 528 páginas
...inhahitant of the empire umst have used its roads: "They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse; but their primary...pervious to the arms and authority of the conqueror." 198 The men who supervised the construction of those roads marked every mile with a monument to the... | |
| 1829 - 732 páginas
...yielded to the efforts of fifteen centuries. They united the sublects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse ; but their primary...all its parts, pervious to the arms and authority of tke conqueror. preaching ruin ; but it was still the greatest and ,richest empire of the world ; it... | |
| 1849 - 420 páginas
...yielded to the effort ol fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse ; but their primary object had been to facilítale the marches of the legions, nor waa any country considered as subdued till it had been... | |
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