 OF the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate without an indignant smile, that, on the father's decease, the property of a nation,...  The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Page 161edited by - 1792Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1906 - 480 pages
...in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate without an indignant smile, that, on the...oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself, and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - English language - 1919 - 480 pages
...in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate without an indignant smile, that, on the...oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind or to himself, and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. Is it possible to relate without an indignant smile, that, on the...oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself, and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their... | |
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