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" After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by the most timid of all the emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke. "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 8
by Edward Gibbon - 1806
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 4

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 518 pages
...Julius, we know, began it ; and therefore Gibbon departs from his usual accuracy when he calls it a war, undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most...terminated by the most timid of all the emperors.* But, let us turn our attention to Caesar. He had assembled on the Gaulish side, now supposed to be...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 5

1816 - 658 pages
...that the palm of glory might not have been contested with Alfred by one of our Edwards or Henrys ? ' After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the...emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke.' Our ingenious readers who are unacquainted with Gibbon, if any such there be, may...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 5; Volume 23

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1816 - 678 pages
...is treating of the gradual conquest of Britain by the Romans, on which subject he proceeds thus : ' After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the...most dissolute, and terminated by the most timid of til the emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke. ' Our ingenious readers...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 59

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 596 pages
...own page, as if the text were to be the puzzle, of which the note was the solution. For example — ' After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the...terminated by the most timid, of all the emperors, th« far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke.'* And then we are told beneath that...
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Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Book of Revelation

Albert Barnes - Bible - 1852 - 530 pages
...Augustus were persuaded to follow the example of the former rather than the precept of the latter. After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the...emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke," i. 2, 3. Of course, the representation in the first seal could not be applied to...
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History of Aldborough and Boroughbridge: Containing an Account of the Roman ...

T. S. Turner - Aldborough (North Yorkshire, England) - 1853 - 224 pages
...the most eloquent of historians, * "after a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid,t maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by...emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke. The various tribes of Britons possessed valour without conduct, and the love of...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...of Sabifi, on vol. ii. p. 277 seq. — S. the northern confines of Yeineu. When their avarice ; • and as Britain was viewed in the light of a distinct...a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid,7 maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by the most timid of all the emperors, the...
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Outlines of History: Illustrated by Numerous Geographical and Historical ...

Marcius Willson - History - 1854 - 866 pages
...fir^t century of the Christian era, after a war of forty years' duration, — a war, says Gibbon, '• undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most...dissolute, and terminated by the most timid, of all the Roman emperors." In the person of Trajan, the Romans received a military emperor ambitious of fame...
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OUTLINES OF HISTORY. ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL ...

MARCUS WILLSON - 1864 - 860 pages
...first century of the Christian era, after a war of forty years' duration, — a war, says Gibbon, " undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most...dissolute, and terminated by the most timid, of all the Eonian emperors." In the person of Trajan, the Romans received a military emperor ambitious of fame...
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Repetition and reading book, selections by C. Bilton

Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...their arms; the pleasing, though doubtful intelligence of a pearl fishery, attracted their avarice ; and as Britain was viewed in the light of a distinct...Continental measures.* After a war of about forty years, under* Augustus ' bequeathed, as a valuable legacy to his successors, the advice of confining the empire...
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