But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial... The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - الصفحة 460المحررون: - 1782عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Edward Gibbon - 1781 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...monarchy of Rome (5). The rife of a city, which fwelled into an empire, may deferve, as a fingular prodigy, the reflection of a philofophic mind. But...decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of t immoderate greatnefs. Profperity ripened the principle of decay ; the caufes of deftruction multiplied... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1783 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...iron monarchy of Rome s. The rife of a city, which fwelled into an empire, may deferve, as a fingular prodigy, the reflection of a philofophic mind. But...greatnefs. Profperity ripened the principle of decay j the caufes of deftruftion multiplied with the extent of conqueft ; and as foon as time or accident... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...the refleclion of a philofophic mind. But the decjine of Rome was the natural and inevitable efteft of immoderate greatnefs. Profperity ripened the principle of decay ; the caufes of deftruclion multiplied with the extent of conqueft ; and as foon as time or accident had removed the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...(Opera, tom. 5. p. 572.) 1 K 2 ... deserve, as a singular prodigy, the reflection of a philosophic tnind. But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay ; the causes of destruction multiplied with the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...city, which swelled into an empire, may deserve, as a singular prodigy, the reflection of a philosophic mind. But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the * Sec Daniel, ii. 31—40. " And the fourth... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...city, which swelled into an empire, may deserve, as a singular prodigy, the reflection of a philosophic mind. But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay ; the causes of destruction multiplied with the... | |
| Dawson William Turner - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 124
...which swelled into an empire, may deserve, as a singular prodigy, the reflections of a philosophic mind. But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay ; the causes of destruction multiplied with the... | |
| Philip Schaff - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 1300
...Observations on the Fall of the R. Empire in the West am 6*lujft ft« XXXVIII. Лар., too ei fogt: „The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the §.141. Sultan« eingriff auf bai Sbrifientbum.... | |
| Philip Schaff - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 1070
...Observations on the Fall of the R. Empire in the West, at the close of ch. xxxviii., where he says: "The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay ; the causes of destruction multiplied with the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...city, which swelled into an empire, may deserve, as a singular prodigy, the reflection of a philosophic mind. But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay ; the causes of destruction multiplied with the... | |
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