 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1805 - 534 pages
...by ancient renown and difciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners bad gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abuled the advantages of wealth and luxu ry. T.be image of a free conllitution was preferved with decent... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1807 - 498 pages
...civilized portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence...gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peartfut inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...civilized portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle, but powerful influence...enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury." Such is the language of Gibbon, when commencing his celebrated work on " The Decline and Fall of the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 580 pages
...civilized portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence...constitution was preserved with decent reverence. CHAP. III. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality, without which judgment... | |
 | 1829 - 598 pages
...civilized portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence...provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abutted the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...frontiers of that extensive monarchy «•ere- guarded by ancient renown und disciplined valour. Тле gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces, ^ifir peaceful inhabitants enjoyed end abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. '/'//, image of... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1836 - 626 pages
...civilized portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence...constitution was preserved with decent reverence. in. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power, which constitutes a poet; that quality, without which judgment... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1840 - 384 pages
...powerful influence of laws and manner» had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peofeful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth...luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved n:illi decent reverence. JOHNSON. Of genius, that power, which constitutes a poet; Moi quality, without... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1840 - 384 pages
...frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle out powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peace/ttHnhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1841 - 636 pages
...civilized portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented tlic union of tiic provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth... | |
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In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle... 
