 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 pages
...'posterity, by placing the most exalted merit on the Roman throne. His discerning eye easily discovered & senator about fifty years of age, blameless in all the offices of life, and a youth of about seventeen, whose riper years opened the fair prospect of every virtue : the elder of these... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1868 - 670 pages
...placing the most exalted merit on the Roman throne. His discerning eye easily discovered a senalor about fifty years of age, blameless in all the offices of life ; and a youth of about seventeen, whose riper years opened a fair prospect of every virtue : the elder of these was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 720 pages
...to deserve the thanks of posterity by placing the most exalted merit on the Roman throne, or the two His discerning eye easily discovered a senator about...blameless in all the offices of life ; and a youth of about seventeen, whose riper years opened the fair prospect of every virtue : the elder of these... | |
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Antonines senator about fifty years of age, blameless in all the offices of life; and a youth of about seventeen, whose riper years opened the fair prospect of every virtue: the elder of these was declared the son and successor of Hadrian, on condition,... 