 | Charles Hay Cameron - 1853 - 220 pages
...the wisdom of ages. The obedient provinces of Trajan and the Antonines were united by laws, and 25 adorned by arts. They might occasionally suffer from...just degrees to an equality with their conquerors." For the sake of clearness in applying what Gibbon says of the Roman policy to the case of British India,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...was raised and preserved by the wisdom of ages. The obedient provinces of Trajan and the Antonines were united by laws and adorned by arts. They might...just degrees, to an equality with their conquerors. I. The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 668 pages
...was raised and preserved by the wisdom of ages. The obedient provinces of Trajan and the Antpnines were united by laws, and adorned by arts. They might...enjoyed the religion of their ancestors, whilst in civil honors and advantages they were exalted, by just degrees, to an equality with their con• |iicrors.... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1899 - 392 pages
...and preserved by the wisdom of ages. The obedient provinces were united by laws and adorned by arts. They enjoyed the religion of their ancestors, whilst...just degrees to an equality with their conquerors. The tranquil and prosperous state of the Empire was warmly felt and honestly confessed by the provinces... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 716 pages
...was raised and preserved by the wisdom of ages. The obedient provinces of Trajan and the Antonines were united by laws and adorned by arts. They might...beneficent. They enjoyed the religion of their ancestors, while in civil honors and advantages they were exalted, by just degrees, to an equality with their... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1900 - 540 pages
...possible." Read, as illustrations of what I have said, a few passages from Gibbon : " The obedient provinces were united by laws and adorned by arts. They might occasionally suffer from the partial abuse of a delegated authority; but the general principle of government was wise, simple, and beneficent. They... | |
 | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 1905 - 564 pages
...was raised and preserved by the wisdom of ages. The obedient provinces of Trajan and the Antonines were united by laws, and adorned by arts. They might...enjoyed the religion of their ancestors, whilst in civil honors and advantages they were exalted, by just degrees, to an equality with their conquerors. The... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 480 pages
...was raised and preserved by the wisdom of ages. The obedient provinces of Trajan and the Antonines were united by laws and adorned by arts. They might...just degrees, to an equality with their conquerors. I. The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - 306 pages
...Mannering." * " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," chap. ii. by arts. They might occasionally suffer by the partial abuse of delegated authority ; but the general principle of government was wise and simple and beneficent. . . . The policy of the Emperors and the Senate, as far as it concerned... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pages
...was raised and preserved by the wisdom of ages. The obedient provinces of Trajan and the Antonines were united by laws, and adorned by arts. They might...enjoyed the religion of their ancestors, whilst in civil honors and advantages they were exalted, by just degrees, to an equality with their conquerors. The... | |
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But the firm edifice of Roman power was raised and preserved by the wisdom of ages. The obedient provinces of Trajan and the Antonines were united by laws and adorned by arts. They might occasionally suffer from the partial abuse of delegated authority;... 
