 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 464 pages
...from motives of interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the free-born warriors who started to arms, at the voice of the king of Morven ; if,...Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery.* A few pages more, will shew you, that this pleasing supposition may be indulged. » Decline... | |
 | John Lanne Buchanan - 1794 - 308 pages
...Offian; the mercenary chiefs who ferved under the Imperial ftandard, from motives of fear, or intereft, with the freeborn warriors who ftarted to arms at...Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerated Romans, polluted w^th the mean vices of wealth and flavery; it is then fincerely wifhed... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...motives of fear or interest, served under the imperial standard, with the free born warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in...degenerate Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wenltU and slavery. — Giiion's History of the Roman Empire. It is well known that constitutions framed... | |
 | Alexander Stewart - 1826 - 506 pages
...motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in a word, we contemplate the untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerate... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the free-born warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in...Romans polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery. The declining health and last illness of Severus inflamed the wild Ambition ambition and black... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...motives of tear or interest, served under the imperial standard, with the free-born warriors who started to arms at the .voice of the king of Morven ; if,...Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery.* Does this show a low estimate' of the poems ? Does it contain more " opposition " than any... | |
 | R. Steele Nicholson - 1868 - 186 pages
...motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the free-born warriors who started to arms at the voice of the King of Morven; if, in...Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery." And in a note on this text he writes: — "That the Caracul of Ossian is the Caracalla of... | |
 | 1888 - 576 pages
...motives of fear or interest, served under the imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in...Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery. — Gibbon's Hut. of lite Roman Emfirt. This is the more pompous, musical, and oratorical... | |
 | Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1891 - 714 pages
...imperial standard, with the free-born warriors, who started to arms at the voice of the King of Morvcn : if, in a word, we contemplated the untutored Caledonians,...Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery." The topography of Scotland in almost every district, especially to the north of the Clyde,... | |
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...motives of fear or interest, served under the imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in...untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of na*u--, and the degenerate Romans, polluted with the mean vices o( ,ultb and sla-'ery. — Gibbon'i... | |
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... revenge of Severus with the generous clemency of Fingal ; the timid and brutal cruelty of Caracalla, with the bravery, the tenderness, the elegant genius of Ossian; the mercenary chiefs who, from motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial... 
