 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 446 Seiten
...colonies. The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilised society ; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is...formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Perhaps the same reflections will illustrate the fall of that mighty empire, and explain the probable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 Seiten
...their colonies. The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire with anxious curiosity whether Europe is still...formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Perhaps the same reflections will illustrate the fall of that mighty empire, and explain the probable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 542 Seiten
...nations of the globe VOL. IV. L 1 are the common enemies of civilized society ; and we may enquire with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened...formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Perhaps the same reflections will illustrate the fall of that mighty empire, and explain the probable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 Seiten
...colonies. The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilised society ; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is...formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Perhaps the same reflections will illustrate the fall of that mighty empire, and explain the probable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 582 Seiten
...colonies. The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society ; and we may inquire with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is...which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Eoi.no. Perhaps the THE BOMAN EMPIBE IN THE WEST. 237 same reflections will illustrate the fall of... | |
 | 1859 - 682 Seiten
...colonies. The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society ; and we may inquire with anxious curiosity whether Europe is still...formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Perhaps the some reflections will illustrate the fall of that mighty empire, and explain the probable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 672 Seiten
...colonies. The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society ; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is...formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Perhaps the same reflections will illustrate the fall of that mighty empire, and explain the probable... | |
 | Charles Neeld Salter - 1897 - 306 Seiten
...The savage nations of the globe," he says, " are the common enemies of civilized society, and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is...which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Eome." He then proceeds to enumerate what he terms, " the probable causes of our actual security ;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 576 Seiten
...their colonies. The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is...formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Perhaps the same reflections will illustrate the fall of that mighty empire, and explain the probable... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1979 - 338 Seiten
...Roman Empire." "The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is...formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome." Optimistically, Gibbon answered this question in the negative, but two hundred years later, one cannot... | |
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... laws, and manners, which so advantageously distinguish, above the rest of mankind, the Europeans and their colonies. The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire with anxious curiosity whether Europe... 
