 This awful catastrophe of Rome filled the astonished empire with grief and terror. So interesting a contrast of greatness and ruin disposed the fond credulity of the people to deplore, and even to exaggerate, the afflictions of the queen of cities. The...  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 第322页作者：Edward Gibbon - 1806全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 518 页
...the astonished empire with grief and terror. In was an interesting contrast of greatness and ruin. The clergy, who applied to recent events, the lofty...tempted to confound the destruction of the capital, with the destruction of the world. * In the year of Christ 250, the Emperor Decius was summoned to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 页
...sex, and every age, who excited the public compassion by the remembrance of their past fortune. This awful catastrophe of Rome filled the astonished empire...exaggerate, the afflictions of the queen of cities. Sack of There exists in human nature a strong propensity troops of to depreciate the advantages, and... | |
 | Alfred Addis - 1830 - 602 页
...condition of captives and exiles. This awful catastrophe of Rome filled the astonished Empire with jrief and terror. So interesting a contrast of greatness...sometimes tempted to confound the destruction of the capita!, and the dissolution of the globe. AD 410. Gibbon, v. xxxi. 7 The first angel sounded, and... | |
 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 470 页
...sex, and every age, who excited the public compassion by the remembrance of their past fortune. This awful catastrophe of Rome filled the astonished empire...of the capital and the dissolution of the globe.'' xiv.] Christ the Redeemer— The Seals : Third Seal. 1319 This is not the whole of that misery which... | |
 | 1840 - 382 页
...perished by the sword. To use the emphatic language of the historian of the decline and fall, " the awful catastrophe of Rome filled the astonished empire with grief and terror, and the clergy, who applied to recent events the lofty metaphor of oriental prophecy, were sometimes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 页
...sex and every age, who excited the public compassion by the remembrance of their past fortune."4 This awful catastrophe of Rome filled the astonished empire...destruction of the capital and the dissolution of the globe. There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils,... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 页
...the statues of so many gods and heroes, was levelled in the dust by the stroke of lightning. " This awful catastrophe of Rome filled the astonished empire with grief and terror. The clergy, who applied to recent events the lofty metaphors of oriental prophecy, were sometimes tempted... | |
 | James De Pui - 1873 - 316 页
...the whole empire as a grievous and terrible calamity. This awful catastrophe of Rome (says Gibbon) filled the astonished empire with grief and terror...sometimes tempted to confound the destruction of the capitol with the desolation of the globe. This fall of Rome from her state of greatness and security... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 672 页
...public compassion by the remembrance of their past fortune."4 This awful catastrophe of Rome iilied tho astonished empire with grief and terror. So interesting...destruction of the capital and the dissolution of the globe. • There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the... | |
 | Frances Emory Tower - 1892 - 584 页
...solitary residence of St. Jerome, was crowded with illustrious beggars of either sex and every age. This awful catastrophe of Rome filled the astonished empire with grief and terror." And we turn to the prophetic record and read : ''AND THE FIRST ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THERE FOLLOWED HAIL... | |
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