 | Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 750 pages
...we carefully trace the diftance from the wall of Antpninus toi Rome, and from thence to Jerufalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from the north-weft to the fouth-eaft pokit of. the empire, was drawn out to the length of four thoufand aid... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 638 pages
...If we carefully trace the dillance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerufalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from the north-well to the fouth-eaft point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of four thoufand and... | |
 | History - 1788 - 642 pages
...we carefully trace the diftance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerufalein, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from the north-weft to the fouth-ealt point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of four thoufand and... | |
 | History - 1788 - 638 pages
...'carefully trace the tíiflance from the wall of Antotiinus tb Rome, 'and from thence to Jerufalem, it 'will be found that the great chain of communication, from the north-weft to the fouth-eaft point of the empire, WHS drawn out to the length of four thoufand and... | |
 | Susannah Watts - 1804 - 164 pages
...communication, which, Rome, from the Pict's wall, or north west, to Jerusalem, nearly the --ou faeast point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of 4080 Roman, or as Mr. Reynolds has shewn, of so many British statute miles. Along these roads proper relays of horses... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...only by the frontiers of the empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be...great chain of communication, from the north-west tp the south-east point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of four thousand and eighty Roman... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the Avail of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence te Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of...point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of four thousand and eighty Roman miles,q The public roads were accurately divided by mile-stones, and... | |
 | Susanna Watts - Leicester (England) - 1820 - 100 pages
...communication, which, passing through Rome, from the Pict's wall, or north-west, to Jerusalem, nearly the south-east point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of 4,080 Roman, or as Mr. Reynolds has shewn, of so many British statute miles. Along these roads proper... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - Genealogy - 1824 - 496 pages
...only by the frontiers of the Empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be...found, that the great chain of communication, from the north west to the south east point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of 4080 Roman miles.... | |
 | Hunting - 1827 - 558 pages
...frontiers of the empire, ïf we carefully trace the distance from the Wall of Antoninus to Rome, and thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great...point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of four thousand and eighty Roman miles. The public roads were accurately divided by mile stones, and... | |
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All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire. If we carefully trace... 
