 Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable barrier against the Tartar horse; and Europe is secure from any future irruption of barbarians, since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.  The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart - Page 483by John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 547 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 448 pages
...Sieclc de L°8i5 XIV. c. xx. in his Works, tom. si. p. 391. and supply the decay of military virtue. Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable...is secure from any future irruption of Barbarians ; :-:ince, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 440 pages
...391. • and supply the decay of military virtue. Cannon and fortifications now form an impregna' "e barrier against the Tartar horse ; and Europe is secure...they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the science of war would always be accompanied, as we may learn from the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...industrious people should be protected by those arts, which survive and supply the decay of military virtue. Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable,...they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the science of war would always be accompanied, as we may learn from the... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 pages
...has very eloquently discussed (" General Olsercutiun* on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West" vol. vi.) " Cannon and fortifications now form an...numbers, thirty thousand Europeans keep no less than one hundred million of natives in subjection ! 3 R lectual labour, or of scientific genius, are permanent,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 468 pages
...industrious people should be protected by those arts, which survive and supply the decay of military virtue. Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable...Tartar horse : and Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians ; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pages
...against the Tartar cavalry ; and all these different facts prove that Europe is secure from any further e went together to ChUwick, that the translator of the 'Prometheus of ¿Eschylus,' the au Such was the conclusion to which Gibbon had arrived. Surely it is a very comfortable one ; and doubtless... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1853 - 530 pages
..."Cannon and fortification now form an impregnable barrier, and Europe is secure from any future eruption of barbarians, since before they can conquer they must cease to be barbarous. Then gradual advancement in the science of war would always be accompanied, as we may learn from the... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1853 - 524 pages
..."Caimon and fortification now form an impregnable barrier, ciad Europe is secure from any future eruption of barbarians, since before they can conquer they must cease to be barbarous. Then gradual advancement in the science of war would always oe accompanied, as we may learn from the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 pages
...industrious people should be protected by those arts which survive and supply the decay of military virtue. Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable...they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous. Their gradual advances in the science of war ' America now contains about six millions of European... | |
 | James J. Macintyre - 1854 - 388 pages
...industrious people should be protected by those arts which survive and supply the decay of military virtue. Cannon and fortifications now form an impregnable...they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous."* In another part of his celebrated history, in a reference to the condition of ancient Britain, he adds... | |
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