 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 518 pages
...began it ; and therefore Gibbon departs from his usual accuracy when he calls it a war, undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most dissolute,...terminated by the most timid of all the emperors.* But, let us turn our attention to Caesar. He had assembled on the Gaulish side, now supposed to be... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 494 pages
...exception to the general system of continental measures. After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid {, maintained by the most dissolute,...emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted tp B3 the * Germanicus, Suetonius Paulinos, 3iuJ Agricola, ^ere checked and recalled in the courseof... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 pages
...general system of continental measures. After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid,8 maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by...emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to '' Germanicus, Suetonius Paulinus, and Agricota, were checked and recalled in the course of their victories.... | |
 | 1816 - 658 pages
...contested with Alfred by one of our Edwards or Henrys ? ' After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most dissolute,...greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke.' Our ingenious readers who are unacquainted with Gibbon, if any such there be, may exercise their sagacity... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 pages
...general system of continental measures. After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid,7 maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by...greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke.8 The various tribes of Britons possessed. valour without conduct, and the love of freedom without... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 pages
...Britain by the Romans, on which subject he proceeds thus : ' After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by the most timid of til the emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke. ' Our ingenious readers... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pages
...exception to the general system of continental mea-. sures. After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid/ maintained by the most dissolute,...greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke.1' The various tribes of Britons possessed valour without conduct, arid the love of freedom without... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 pages
...exception to the general system of continental measures. After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid, ^ maintained by the most dissolute,...the far greater part of the island submitted to the Uonmn yoke.8 The various tribes of Britons possessed valour without conduct, and the love of freedom... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 596 pages
...of which the note was the solution. For example — ' After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most dissolute,...terminated by the most timid, of all the emperors, th« far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke.'* And then we are told beneath that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 588 pages
...undertaken by the most stupid,(l) maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by the most timid oi all the emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke. (2) The various tribes of Britain possessed valour without conduct, and the love of freedom without... | |
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After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the most stupid, maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated by the most timid of all the emperors, the far greater part of the island submitted to the Roman yoke. 
