...their reigns, and those of the intervening princes, Hadrian and the elder Antonine, Mr. Gibbon says, ' it was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.' The ' long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans,...

...serve against the public enemy, and the civil magistrate seldom required the aid of a military force. " It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption/ This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced...

...of two nations, and that Lavinium was a more recent city than Alba. — Niebuhr, i.201. EXERCISE in. It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced...

...seems to prevail in these passages, the substance of them is perfectly agreeable to historic truth. It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced...

...seems to prevail in these passages, the substance of them is perfectly agreeable to historic truth. It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced...

...preceded by an age of iron*." During this age, however, the clay was insensibly gaining upon the iron. "It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans introduced...

...belief that war is virtuous and peace ignoble — are naturally blind to truths of this kind. Rather should we say, perhaps, that they have never turned...them ; if even this. What perverted conceptions of sociological phenomena this bias produces, may be seen in the following passage from Gibbon : "It was...

...the belief that war is virtuous and peace ignoble, are naturally blind to truths of this kind. Rather should we say, perhaps, that they have never turned...them ; if even this. What perverted conceptions of sociological phenomena this bias produces, may be seen in the following passage from Gibbon : — "...

...prevailed in the last century continued also in this, under the emperors Severus, Decius, and Aurelian. It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced...

...was never more imperiously required and never more effectively manifested. CCLIX. Slow Decay of Rome. It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay. This long peace and the uniform government of the Romans introduced a slow...