 The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of Nature ; and if such were the ravages of the Tiber under a firm and active government, what could oppose, or who can enumerate, the injuries...  Notes and Queries - Seite 4741921Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1914 - 708 Seiten
...When that day comes, we may well join with Gibbon in the belief that, "The servitude of the rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of Nature." C NO CONFLICT NECESSARY. Nor is there any necessary conflict between these various purposes previously... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1971 - 844 Seiten
...Delcaration, August 1965) . It is affirmed by the learned Edward Gibbon that: "The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature" (The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Vol. III). Tocks Island Conservation Project, to control... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1974 - 1748 Seiten
...Delcaration, August 1965). It is affirmed by the learned Edward Gibbon that: “The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man...has obtained over the licentiousness of nature” (The Decline And Fall Qf The Roman Empire, Vol. III). oks Island Conservation Project, to control and... | |
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