 The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of Nature ; and if such were the ravages of the Tiber under a firm and active government, what could oppose, or who can enumerate, the injuries...  Notes and Queries - Sida 4741921Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 372 sidor
...nature'7; and if fuch were the ravages of the Tyber under a firm and active government , what could oppofc, or who can enumerate, the injuries of the city after the fall of the Weftern empire? A 'remedy was at length produced by the evil itfelf : the accumulation of rubbifh and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 sidor
...the use compensate the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect execution. The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature;17 and if such were the ravages of the Tyber under a firm and active government, what could... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 558 sidor
...the use compensate the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect execution. The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature % iles pene absumsere urbem. Nam Tibetis insolitis auctus imbribus et ultra opinionero, vel diumitate... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 458 sidor
...such were the ravages of the Tyber under a firm and active government, what could oppose, or who could enumerate, the injuries of the city after the fall of the western empire ? A remedy was at length produced by the evil itself: the accumulation of rubbish, and the earth that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 sidor
...the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature ;'7 and if such were the ravages of the Tiber under a firm and active government, what could oppose, or Avho can enumerate, the injuries ol the city after the fall oi the AVestern Empire? A remedy was at... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 492 sidor
...the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature r ; and if such were the ravages of the Tiber under a...injuries of the city after the fall of the western empire ? A remedy was at length produced by the evil itself: the accumulation of rubbish, and the earth that... | |
 | Edward Cresy - 1847 - 912 sidor
...rivers devoted to the purpose of mland navigation ; and, according to Gibbon, " the servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man...obtained over the licentiousness of nature;" and, without doubt, agriculture would first derive advantage from their subjection, occasioning them to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1851 - 694 sidor
...the use compensate the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect execution. The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature ; 17 and if such were the ravages of the Tyber under a firm and active government, what could oppose,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 sidor
...the use compensate the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect execution. The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature ;t and if such were the ravages of the Tiber under a firm and active government, what could oppose,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 632 sidor
...noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature ;t aud if such were the ravages of the Tiber under a firm...of the city, after the fall of the Western empire ? A remedy was at length produced by the evil itself; the accumulation of rubbish, and the earth that... | |
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