 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 464 pages
...columns and temples, and viewed from that commanding spot, the wide and various prospect of desolation. The place, and the object, gave ample scope for moralizing on the viciflitudes of fortune, which spares neither man, nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires... | |
 | John Gustavus Lemaistre - Europe - 1806 - 400 pages
...wide and various prospect of desolation. ' The place and object gave ample scope for * moralising. on the vicissitudes of Fortune, ' which spares neither...greatness, the ' fall of Rome was the more awful and deplo' rable. Her primeval state, such as she might ' appear in a remote age, when Evander enterf tained... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...columns and temples ; and viewed from that commanding spot the wide and various prospect of desolation. The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing...fall of Rome was the more awful and deplorable. Her primaeval state, such as she might appear in a remote age, when Evander entertained the stranger of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 628 pages
...columns and temples ; and viewed from that commanding spot the wide and various prospect of desolation.f The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing...grave ; and it was agreed, that in proportion to her may be quoted with the same confidence as the Latin text of the Antiquities. 4. Annali d' Italia, eighteen... | |
 | Emil Kade - English language - 1856 - 280 pages
...spirits for the rest of the day. By. — The worse they grow, the fonder I become of them. By. — In proportion to her former greatness, the fall of Rome was the more awful and deplorable. G. — So much the better for her. By. — Macbeth was not the (urn nidjtS) more happy that he had... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...Ibid. Ch. xlix. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ibid. Ch. Ixviii. Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man...which buries empires and cities in a common grave. Ibid. Ch. Ixxi. All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. ibid. Ch. Ixxi. On the approach... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...des crimes Ql des malheurs. — Voltaire, L Jngfnu, CA.x. (1767). 2 Compare Clarendon, ante, p. 170. Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man...which buries empires and cities in a common grave. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. Ixxi. All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.... | |
 | Education Ministry of - 1880 - 238 pages
...instinct in the soul, breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion." — ADDISON. Or, " The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing...in proportion to her former greatness the fall of Kome was the more awful and deplorable." GIBBON. Write out all the verbs which occur in the passage,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1880 - 662 pages
...umns and temples ; and viewed from that commanding spot the wide and various prospect of desolation.9 The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing...vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudes" of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave ; and it was agreed, that... | |
 | Education Ministry of - 1882 - 292 pages
...instinct in the soul, breaks ont on all OCCUHIOIIH without judgment or discretion." — ADDISON. Or, " Tho place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing...spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which biiricN empires and cities in a common grave ; and it WIIH agreed, that in proportion to her former... | |
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The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave... 
