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" The gentle, but powerful, influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 1
by Edward Gibbon - 1813
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The History of the Manners, Landed Property, Government, Laws, Poetry ...

Sharon Turner - 1805 - 534 pages
...the earth, and the moft civili2ed portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extenfive monarchy CHAP. were guarded by ancient renown and difciplined valour....gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners bad gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abuled the...
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons, Volume 2

Sharon Turner - 1807 - 498 pages
...of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws...gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peartfut inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution...
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The Herald of peace. July 1850-Jan./March 1930. Oct. /Dec. 1938, Jan./April 1939

International peace society - 232 pages
...of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle, but powerful influence of laws...provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury." Such is the language of Gibbon, when commencing his celebrated...
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons: Comprising the History of ..., Volumes 1-2

Sharon Turner - 1823 - 1256 pages
...of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws...provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1829 - 598 pages
...of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws...provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abutted the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent...
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Religious Magazine: Or, Spirit of the Foreign Theological Journals ..., Volume 4

1830 - 580 pages
...of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws...provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent...
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The Tourist: A Literary and Anti-slavery Journal, Volume 1

1833 - 370 pages
...frontiers of that extensive monarchy «•ere- guarded by ancient renown und disciplined valour. Тле gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces, ^ifir peaceful inhabitants enjoyed end abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. '/'//, image of...
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 2

Sharon Turner - 1836 - 626 pages
...of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws...provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent...
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The history of the Anglo-Saxons, Volume 2

Sharon Turner - 1840 - 384 pages
...frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle out powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peace/ttHnhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution...
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 2

Sharon Turner - 1841 - 636 pages
...of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented tlic union of tiic provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth...
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