| 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 tfie union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth... | |
| Louis F. Klipstein - 1848 - 258 pages
...mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valor. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners...provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved urith decent... | |
| Louis F. Klipstein - 1848 - 262 pages
...frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valor. The gentle l/ut powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually...provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1852 - 530 pages
...of manhind. 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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1922 - 784 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. . . .' It is a mild, though an adequate, beginning to a... | |
| Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant - 1873 - 528 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... | |
| William Swinton - 1879 - 172 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 the «nio» of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and... | |
| William Swinton - 1879 - 172 pages
...monarehy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but poirerful influence 6f laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoged and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury. The imagc of a free constitution was preserved... | |
| Frederic Thomas Gammon - 1886 - 196 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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