 | Lionel Casson - History - 1998 - 188 pages
...mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guaranteed by ancient renown and disciplined valor. The gentle, but powerful, influence of laws and manners...enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. . . . During a happy period of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by... | |
 | David Armitage - History - 2000 - 264 pages
...America.2 The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by a common religion and by the Royal Navy. The gentle, but powerful influence of laws and manners...gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their free, white inhabitants enjoyed and produced the advantages of wealth and luxury . The image of a free... | |
 | Robert Louis Wilken - Religion - 2003 - 244 pages
...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 valor. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the... | |
 | Joseph Gilbert Manning, Ian Morris - History - 2005 - 310 pages
...comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized part of mankind. The frontiers of the extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown...enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. — Edward Gibbon Introduction Edward Gibbon's verdict on the second-century Roman Empire may now seem... | |
 | John C. Bogle - Business & Economics - 2005 - 292 pages
...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 valor. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - History - 2005 - 552 pages
...toward it was itself ambiguous. These ambiguities begin to be stated in Gibbon's opening paragraph. 'The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour'; by the military virtue which the republic had exported until it now survived in a condition separate... | |
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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 valor. The gentle... 
