 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...will. Hitdion. •'.'. lAinatiu Ue Roioa Yclerc, I. ill. c. 4, ft, 6. Nardini Rom* In the commonwealths of Athens and Rome, the modest simplicity of . private houses announced the equal menu for yuUic condition of freedom ; whilst the th«tm:PMiwsovereignty of the people was re- *"*•**... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1843 - 588 pages
...and Rome, the modest simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition of freedom ; while the sovereignty of the people was represented in the majestic edifices destined to the public use ;(3) nor was this republican spirit totally extinguished by the introduction of wealth and monarchy.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1846 - 678 pages
...patron and benefactor.70 Most of the In the commonwealths of Athens and Rome, the modest numrati'for simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition...the people was represented in the majestic edifices designed to the public use71; nor was this republican spirit totally extinguished by the introduction... | |
 | George Cleghorn (writer on art.) - 1848 - 366 pages
...regularite de son ensemble, et l'excellence de son architecture, a tenu jusq'ici * " In the commonwealths of Rome, the modest simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition of freemen ; whilst the sovereignty of the people was represented in the majestic edifices destined for... | |
 | George Cleghorn - Art - 1848 - 368 pages
...regularity de son ensemble, et 1'excellence de son architecture, a tenu jusq'ici * " In the commonwealths of Rome, the modest simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition of freemen; whilst the sovereignty of the people was represented in the majestic edifices destined for... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1868 - 670 pages
...See Martini, Dissertation on the 'ideeus of lac Ancientl Leipsic, 1767, p. 10— 91. — AV. mmplicpy of private houses announced the equal condition of...the people was represented in the majestic edifices designed to the public use ;7 nor was this republican spirit totally extinguished by the intruducnon... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 pages
...beautiful in art and the pure in morality. " In the commonwealths of Athens and Rome," says Gibbon, " the modest simplicity of private houses announced...the people was represented in the majestic edifices designed to the public use." The triumphs of modern science in giving power to inert matter and enlisting... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 pages
...beautiful in art and the pure in morality. " In the commonwealths of Athens and Rome," says Gibbon, " the modest simplicity of private houses announced...the people was represented in the majestic edifices designed to the public use." The triumphs of modern science in giving power to inert matter and enlisting... | |
 | Sir William Gell, John Peter Gandy - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1875 - 348 pages
...our recollection a passage of Gibbon ; who remarks, that " in the commonwealth of Athens and Borne, the modest simplicity of private houses announced...whilst the sovereignty of the people was represented by the majestic edifices destined to public use." ' The part to the right had perhaps a second order,... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - American literature - 1893 - 492 pages
...Gibbon, " the modest simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition of freemen ; while the sovereignty of the people was represented in the majestic edifices destined for public use." One of our own writers on this subject says : "With us it is the people alone whose... | |
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In the commonwealths of Athens and Rome, the modest simplicity of private houses announced the equal condition of freedom ; whilst the sovereignty of the people was represented in the majestic edifices destined to the public use : nor was this republican... 
