 ... revenge of Severus with the generous clemency of Fingal ; the timid and brutal cruelty of Caracalla, with the bravery, the tenderness, the elegant genius of Ossian; the mercenary chiefs who, from motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial...  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 第 208 頁Edward Gibbon 著 - 1813完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 464 頁
...from motives of interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the free-born warriors who started to arms, at the voice of the king of Morven ; if,...Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery.* A few pages more, will shew you, that this pleasing supposition may be indulged. » Decline... | |
 | John Lanne Buchanan - 1794 - 308 頁
...Offian; the mercenary chiefs who ferved under the Imperial ftandard, from motives of fear, or intereft, with the freeborn warriors who ftarted to arms at...Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerated Romans, polluted w^th the mean vices of wealth and flavery; it is then fincerely wifhed... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 頁
...motives of fear or interest, served under the imperial standard, with the free born warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in...degenerate Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wenltU and slavery. — Giiion's History of the Roman Empire. It is well known that constitutions framed... | |
 | Alexander Stewart - 1826 - 506 頁
...motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in a word, we contemplate the untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerate... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 頁
...motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the free-born warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in...Romans polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery. The declining health and last illness of Severus inflamed the wild Ambition ambition and black... | |
 | 1865 - 838 頁
...motives of tear or interest, served under the imperial standard, with the free-born warriors who started to arms at the .voice of the king of Morven ; if,...Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery.* Does this show a low estimate' of the poems ? Does it contain more " opposition " than any... | |
 | R. Steele Nicholson - 1868 - 186 頁
...motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the free-born warriors who started to arms at the voice of the King of Morven; if, in...Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery." And in a note on this text he writes: — "That the Caracul of Ossian is the Caracalla of... | |
 | 1888 - 576 頁
...motives of fear or interest, served under the imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in...Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery. — Gibbon's Hut. of lite Roman Emfirt. This is the more pompous, musical, and oratorical... | |
 | Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1891 - 714 頁
...imperial standard, with the free-born warriors, who started to arms at the voice of the King of Morvcn : if, in a word, we contemplated the untutored Caledonians,...Romans, polluted with the mean vices of wealth and slavery." The topography of Scotland in almost every district, especially to the north of the Clyde,... | |
 | 1900 - 570 頁
...motives of fear or interest, served under the imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in...untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of na*u--, and the degenerate Romans, polluted with the mean vices o( ,ultb and sla-'ery. — Gibbon'i... | |
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