 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 sidor
...monarchies have imbibed the principles of freedom, or, at least, of moderation j and some sense of honour and justice is introduced into the most defective...the European forces are exercised by temperate and indecisive contests. If a savage conqueror should issue from the deserts of Tartary, he must repeatedly... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison - 1849 - 494 sidor
...monarchies have imbibed the principles of freedom, or, at least, of moderation ; and some sense of honour and justice is introduced into the most defective constitutions by the general manners of the times 9 ." And how much of this, it may well be asked, do we not owe to the silent influence, upon the world,... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison - 1849 - 482 sidor
...monarchies have imbibed the principles of freedom, or, at least, of moderation ; and some sense of honour and justice is introduced into the most defective constitutions by the general manners of the times9." And how much of this, it may well be asked, do we not owe to the silent influence, upon the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 576 sidor
...monarchies have imbibed the principles of freedom, or, at least, of moderation; and some sense of honour and justice is introduced into the most defective...constitutions by the general manners of the times. In recently vanquished by the Chinese, who, in the year 1759, subdued the lesser Bucharia, and advanced... | |
 | Herbert George Wells - 1920 - 1002 sidor
...monarchies have imbibed the principles of freedom, or, at least, of moderation ; and some sense of honour and justice is introduced into the most defective...In peace, the progress of knowledge and industry is iccderated by the emulation of so many active rivals: in war, be European forces are exercised by temperate... | |
 | George Richard Potter, Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, Richard Bruce Wernham, J. P. Cooper, Francis Ludwig Carsten, John Selwyn Bromley, Peter Burke, J. O. Lindsay, Albert Goodwin, Charles William Crawley, John Patrick Tuer Bury, Francis Harry Hinsley, Henry Clifford Darby, David Thomson, Harold Fullard - 1957 - 388 sidor
...Or, as Gibbon characterises the advantages of the modern West in contrast to uni-centric Rome : ' ... the progress of knowledge and industry is accelerated by the emulation of so many active rivals'. (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. JB Bury (London, 1901), vol. iv, p. 166.)... | |
 | Richard Shelly Hartigan - 1982 - 206 sidor
...was afforded to the civilian of all nations regardless of his beliefs. IX The Maturity of an Illusion In peace, the progress of knowledge and industry is...are exercised by temperate and undecisive contests. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Democracy made all men equal... | |
 | E. L. Jones - 1987 - 324 sidor
...between Europe and Asia was widening before industrialisation. Europe Chapter 3 Technological drift The progress of knowledge and industry is accelerated by the emulation of so many active rivals Edward Gibbon EUROPE was a mutant civilisation in its uninterrupted amassing of knowledge about technology.... | |
 | Kenneth W. Thompson - 1991 - 232 sidor
...system of arts, and laws, and manners." Then Gibbon, looking out over Europe and North America, added, "In war, the European forces are exercised by temperate and undecisive contests."" The temperate contests of the eighteenth century that could not injure 40. Walter LaFeber, America,... | |
 | Jeremy Black - 2000 - 350 sidor
...monarchies have imbibed the principles of freedom, or, at least, of moderation; and some sense of honour and justice is introduced into the most defective...the European forces are exercised by temperate and indecisive contests.2 For Gibbon, this 'happy mixture of union and independence had been prefigured... | |
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The abuses of tyranny are restrained by the mutual influence of fear and shame; republics have acquired order and stability; monarchies have imbibed the principles of freedom, or, at least, of moderation; and some sense of honour and justice is introduced... 
