 | Edmund Burke - 1779 - 750 pages
...adequate to his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell into the hands of ะท Jingle perfon, the world became a fecure and dreary prifon for his enemies. The flave of Imperial... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1788 - 638 pages
...adequate to his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell into the hands of a fingle pcrfon, the world became a fecuie and dreary prifon for his enemies. The (lave of Imperil] defpotifm,... | |
 | 1788 - 642 pages
...adequate to his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell into the hands of a fingle perfon, the world became a fecure and dreary prifon for hi. enemies. The Have of Imperil! dcfpotifm,... | |
 | 1788 - 638 pages
...his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romany filled the world, and when that empire fell into the hands of a fmgle perfon, the world became a fecure and dreary prilon for his enemies. The flave of Imperial dcfpotifm,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1818 - 766 pages
...adequate to his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell...enemies. The slave of imperial despotism, whether be was condemned to drag his gilded chain in Rome and the senate, or to wear out a life of exile on... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...adequate to his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell...enemies. The slave of imperial despotism, whether he was condenmed to drag his gilded chain in Rome and the senate, or to wear out a life of exile on the barren... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pages
...adequate to his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell...whether he was condemned to drag his gilded chain in Borne and the senate, or to wear out a life of exile on the barren rock of Seriphus, or the frozen... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1844 - 466 pages
...a secure refuge, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell...enemies. The slave of imperial despotism, whether condemned to drag his gilded chain in Rome and the senate, or to wear out a life of exile on the barren... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 pages
...tyranny in any other age or country was, that they had no escape. The empire of the Romans, he observes, filled the world ; and when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became one dreary prison for his enemies. He contrasts this condition of things with that of the modern world,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 480 pages
...climate, a secure refuge, freedom of complaint, and perhaps means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell...world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies. To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. On every side he was encompassed with a vast extent... | |
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But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies. 
