 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...accompanied him into Africa as his lieutenant, was likewise declared emperor. His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of...as the latter were designed for use rather than for ostentation.19 The Roman people acknowledged in the features of the younger Gordian the resemblance... | |
 | Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1887 - 354 pages
...flourish, because he was slain after a reign of thirty-six days) in the third century, Gibbon says, " twenty-two acknowledged concubines and a library of...the latter, were designed for use rather than for ostentation." This combination of uxorious and literary tastes seems to have existed in another monarch... | |
 | 1897 - 934 pages
...not to say the illiterate. But I remember what Gibbon said of the younger Gordianus : " Thirty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two...volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations." Needless to say that by this reference I intend no disparagement of the " moral tone '' of Miss Corelli's... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1900 - 716 pages
...accompanied him into Africa as his lieutenant, was likewise declared emperor. His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of...volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations. " The Roman people acknowledged in the features of the younger Gordian the '1 Hist. August, p. 151,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 314 pages
...accompanied him into Africa as his lieutenant, was likewise declared Emperor. His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of...Twenty-two acknowledged Concubines, and a library of 62,000 volumes attested the variety of his inclina1 See Letters, i. So. tions : and from the productions... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Authors, English - 1902 - 356 pages
...accompanied him into Africa as his lieutenant, was likewise declared Emperor. His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of...Twenty-two acknowledged Concubines, and a library of 62,000 volumes attested the variety of his inclinations : and from the productions which he left behind... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 426 pages
...accompanied him into Africa as his lieutenant, was likewise declared Emperor. His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of...Twenty-two acknowledged Concubines, and a library of 62,000 volumes attested the variety of his inclina1 See Letters, i. 80. tions : and from the productions... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1906 - 480 pages
...accompanied him into Africa as his lieutenant, was likewise declared emperor. His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of...productions which he left behind him, it appears that both the one and the other were designed for use rather than for ostentation." The Roman people acknowledged... | |
 | Charles Thomas-Stanford - Algeria - 1912 - 402 pages
...antithetical bias of his style, and a certain sly humour of which he was master. " His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of...appears that the former as well as the latter were intended for use rather than for ostentation.1 The Roman people acknowledged in the features of the... | |
 | Charles Thomas-Stanford - Algeria - 1912 - 380 pages
...antithetical bias of his style, and a certain sly humour of which he was master. " His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of...acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two 251 About Algeria thousand volumes attested the variety of his inclinations ; and from the productions... | |
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Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather... 
