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" The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect. "
The National Quarterly Review - Page 285
edited by - 1863
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Illustrations of Prophecy ...

Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...that of Decius, a period of 15O years. The second denotes the under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle...Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of libertv, and were pleased with considering themselves as the accountable ministers of the laws.' Decl....
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The History of the Waldenses: Connected with a Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle...The forms of the civil administration were carefully governed by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were...
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The History of the Waldenses: Connected with a Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

William Jones - 1816 - 492 pages
...extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle...The forms of the civil administration were carefully governed by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 pages
...The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms...Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted ia the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves as the accountable ministers...
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The History of the Christian Church: From the Birth of Christ to ..., Volume 1

William Jones - 1819 - 626 pages
...wisdom. The armies were restrained by ihc firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, w hose character and authority commanded involuntary respect....The forms of the civil administration were carefully governed by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pages
...The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms...the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva,Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with...
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The History of the Christian Church: From the Birth of Christ to ..., Volume 1

William Jones - 1824 - 522 pages
...extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters * Vitellius consumed in mere eating, at least six millions of our money in about seven mouths....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

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 - 626 pages
...extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 37, Issue 73

1828 - 598 pages
...extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

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
...extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were...
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