The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8Abraham Small and M. Carey, 1816 - Byzantine Empire |
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... amusement of his leisure hours was the game of chess , which he improved or corrupted with new refinements67 . In his religion , he was a zealous , though not perhaps an orthodox , Mu- sulman ; but his sound understanding may tempt us ...
... amusement of his leisure hours was the game of chess , which he improved or corrupted with new refinements67 . In his religion , he was a zealous , though not perhaps an orthodox , Mu- sulman ; but his sound understanding may tempt us ...
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... amusement of the knights and lad es in the court of Charles VI . If a Greek believed in the exploits of Row- land and Oliver , he may surely be excused , since the monks of St Denys , the national historians , have inserted the fables ...
... amusement of the knights and lad es in the court of Charles VI . If a Greek believed in the exploits of Row- land and Oliver , he may surely be excused , since the monks of St Denys , the national historians , have inserted the fables ...
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... Græcam , Latinam , Chaldaicam , Persicam . The Latin translator of Phranza has dropt the Arabic , which the Koran must recommend to every Musulman . LXVIII . might indeed contribute to his amusement , and 120 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
... Græcam , Latinam , Chaldaicam , Persicam . The Latin translator of Phranza has dropt the Arabic , which the Koran must recommend to every Musulman . LXVIII . might indeed contribute to his amusement , and 120 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
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Edward Gibbon. LXVIII . might indeed contribute to his amusement , and the Ara- CHAP . bic to his edification ; and such studies are familiar to the Oriental youth . In the intercourse of the Greeks and Turks , a conqueror might wish to ...
Edward Gibbon. LXVIII . might indeed contribute to his amusement , and the Ara- CHAP . bic to his edification ; and such studies are familiar to the Oriental youth . In the intercourse of the Greeks and Turks , a conqueror might wish to ...
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... amusement or instruction : the total amount , in the last poverty of the empire , has been va- lued at four millions of ducats " ; and of this sum a small part was the property of the Venetians , the Genoese , the Florentines , and the ...
... amusement or instruction : the total amount , in the last poverty of the empire , has been va- lued at four millions of ducats " ; and of this sum a small part was the property of the Venetians , the Genoese , the Florentines , and the ...
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Page 112 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the Lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 51 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Page 104 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished :
Page 35 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 112 - I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 5 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 27 - In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.
Page 6 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 14 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Page 88 - The Latin, though then less celebrated, and confined to more narrow limits, has, in some measure, outlived the Greek, and is now more generally understood by men of letters. Let the French, therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation of barbarians, promise a superior stability and duration to the English language.