 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...the of Dacia had already experienced their proximity by Ukraine. frequent and destructive inroads.19 In this interval, therefore, of about seventy years...rendered them formidable in a close engagement; the manly obedience which they yielded to hereditary kings gave uncommon union and stability to their councils... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 336 pages
...Often Caulincourt or Duroc were up with him hard at work all night." — ALISON. History of Europe. " Either a pestilence or a famine, a victory or a defeat,...leader, were sufficient to impel the Gothic arms." — GIBBON. Decline and Fall. Surely, the writer's meaning is that any one of those causes was sufficient... | |
 | 1863 - 852 pages
...Euxine took place, it is impossible to ascertain. 'Either a pestilence or a famine,' says Gibbon, ' a victory or a defeat, an oracle of the gods or the...sufficient to impel the Gothic arms on the milder climate of the south.' In their new home, which w;is also the country of the Getae (whence, perhaps,... | |
 | 1868 - 872 pages
...Euxine took place, it is impossible to ascertain. 'Either a pestilence or a famine,' says Gibbon, ' a victory or a defeat, an oracle of the gods or the...sufficient to impel the Gothic arms on the milder climate of the south.' In their new home, which was also the country of the Gcte (whence, perhaps,... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 pages
...inferior in the felicities of their style." " We see plainly that it is neither Osmyn nor 'Jane Shore that "Either a pestilence or a famine, a victory or a defeat,...leader, were sufficient to impel the Gothic arms." "These are the blessings which political and intellectual freedom have brought in its train." "An officer... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1870 - 488 pages
...does not exhibit the perfection of writing correctly. Because Gibbon produces such a passage as this, Either a pestilence or a famine, a victory or a defeat,...leader were sufficient to impel the Gothic arms— and Junius such a one as this, Neitlier Charles nor his brother were qualified to support such a system—•... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1876 - 552 pages
...does not exhibit the perfection of writing correctly. Because Gibbon produces such a passage as this, Either a pestilence or a famine, a victory or a defeat,...daring leader were sufficient to impel the Gothic arms — and Junius such a one as this, Neither Charles nor his brother were qualified to support such a... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1886 - 490 pages
...exhibit the perfection of writing correctly. Because Gibbon produces such a passage as this, Eithtr a pestilence or a famine, a victory or a defeat, an...daring leader were sufficient to impel the Gothic arms — and Junius such a one as this, Neither Charles nor his brother were qualified to support such a... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 pages
...continued.) 1. Such, and no less is he On whom depend the sum of things. (Dr.) you sure it was me ? (D.) 6. Either a pestilence or a famine, a victory or a defeat,...the eloquence of a daring leader, were sufficient . . . (Gt.) 7. " Laws " of course is far from having the charm of " Republic." (E. Rev.) 8. The first... | |
 | 1874 - 868 pages
...Euxine took place, it is impossible to ascertain. 'Either a pestilence or a lamine,' says Gibbon, ' a victory or a defeat, an oracle of the gods or the...sufficient to impel the Gothic arms on the milder climate of the south.' In their new home, which was also the country of the Get;e (whence, perhaps,... | |
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Either a pestilence or a famine, a victory or a defeat, an oracle of the gods or the eloquence of a daring leader, were sufficient to impel the Gothic arms on the milder climates of the south. Besides the influence of a martial religion, the numbers and... 
