 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...deprived of its leaves and branches ; and the sapless trunk was left to wither 'on the ground. Hence, curiosity and ambition no longer attracted the nations...necessity directed the steps of a wandering stranger, he viewed with horror the vacancy and solitude of the city, and might have been tempted to ask, Where... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1807 - 492 pages
...their brethren, who were dragged into diftant ilaVery beyond the fea arid the mountains; Curibfity and ambition no longer attracted the nations to the capital of the world : but if chance, or neceffity, directed the fteps of a wandering ftrangeri he contemplated, with horror, the vacancy and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...annihilate the pleasures and interrupt the labours of a rural life ; and the Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which...: but if chance or necessity directed the steps of the wandering stranger, he contemplated with horror the vacancy and solitude of the city, and might... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 462 pages
...and the Campagna of Rome \vas speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which the laud is barren, the waters are impure, and the air is infectious....necessity directed the steps of a wandering stranger, he contemplate with horror the vacancy and solitude of the city, and might b>. tempted to ask, where is... | |
 | George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - 530 pages
...while, in the west, it terminated, at a contracted pass, upon the edge of an impracticable lagoon — a dreary wilderness, in which the land is barren, the waters are impure, and the air infectious. From thence the main land, sweeping round to Port Henderson and the Salt Pond hills, again... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1830 - 442 pages
...annihilate the pleasures and interrupt the labours of a rural life; and the Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which...attracted the nations to the capital of the world: but it chance or necessity directed the steps of a wandering stranger, he contemplated with horror the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 522 pages
...annihilate the pleasures and interrupt the labours of a rural life ; and the Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which...the land is barren, the waters are impure, and the a\r is infectious. Curiosity and ambition no longer attracted the nations to the capital of the world... | |
 | Frederic Fysh - 1837 - 622 pages
...reposed, was deprived of its leaves and branches, and the sapless trunk was left to wither on the ground. Curiosity and ambition no longer attracted the nations...: but if chance or necessity directed the steps of the wandering stranger, he contemplated with horror the vacancy and solitude of the city, and might... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison - 1849 - 482 pages
...into distant slavery beyond the sea and the mountains ; . . . . and the Campagna of Rome was speedily reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which...a wandering stranger, he contemplated with horror 1 [" Praeterea Canusinae An- pestatibus coruscis, et turbitistes ecclesiae ad eundem Dei nibus ac terrae... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 pages
...Egypt and Lybia. " The Campagna of Rome," says Gibbon, " about the close of the sixth century, was reduced to the state of a dreary wilderness, in which the land was barren, the waters impure, and the air infectious. Yet the number of citizens still exceeded the... | |
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... and heard the lamentations of their brethren, who were coupled together like dogs, and dragged away into distant slavery beyond the sea and the mountains. Such incessant alarms must annihilate the pleasures and interrupt the labours of a rural life... 
