 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 páginas
...ascertained by the degree of their skill and talents.56 Almost every profession, either liberal " or mechanical, might be found in the household of an opulent senator. The ministers of pomp and sensuality were multiplied beyond the conception of modern luxury.58 It was more... | |
 | 1862 - 648 páginas
...of slaves was never prohibited in the ancient Roman world, and, in point of fact, no small number of them enjoyed the advantage of a high cultivation....be found in the household of an opulent senator.' Modern slaveholders on the contrary, are independent of the skill, and therefore of the intelligence... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - 1862 - 172 páginas
...of slaves was never prohibited in the ancient Roman world, and, in point of fact, no small number of them enjoyed the advantage of a high cultivation....Gibbon, " were instructed in the arts and sciences, aud almost every profession, liberal and mechanical, might be found in the household of an opulent... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 páginas
...of slaves was never prohibited in the ancient Roman world, and, in point of fact, no small number of them enjoyed the, advantage of a high cultivation....mechanical, might be found in the household of an opillent senator.' Modern slaveholders, on the contrary, are independent of the skill, and therefore... | |
 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin - 1864 - 352 páginas
...ancient Eoman world, and, in point of fact, no small number of them enjoyed the advantage of a simple cultivation . ' The youths of promising genius,' says...this way, provided for the education of at least a largo proportion of the slave population; and education, accompanied as it was by a general elevation... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 páginas
...of slaves was never prohibited in the ancient Roman world; and, in point of fact, no small number of them enjoyed the advantage of a high cultivation....might be found in the household of an opulent senator/ Modern slaveholders, on the contrary, are independent of the skill, and therefore of the intelligence... | |
 | Daniel Raynes Goodwin - 1864 - 366 páginas
...ancient Eoman world, and, in point of fact, no small number of them enjoyed the advantage of a simple cultivation. 'The youths of promising genius,' says...an opulent Senator.' The industrial necessities of Eoman society, (and the same was true of society in the middle ages,) in this way, provided for the... | |
 | Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant - 1873 - 528 páginas
...was ascertained by the degree of their skill and talents. Almost every profession, either liberal or mechanical, might be found in the household of an opulent senator. The ministers of pomp and sensuality were multiplied beyond the conception of modern luxury. It was more... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 404 páginas
...of slaves was never prohibited in the ancient Roman world; and, in point of fact, no small number of them enjoyed the advantage of a high cultivation. ' The youths of promising genius,1 says Gibbon, ' were instructed in the arts and sciences ; and almost every profession, liberal... | |
 | Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant - 1886 - 550 páginas
...was ascertained by the degree of their skill and talents. Almost every profession, either liberal or mechanical, might be found in the household of an opulent senator. The ministers of pomp and sensuality were multiplied beyond the conception of modern luxury. It was more... | |
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It was more for the interest of the merchant or manufacturer to purchase, than to hire his workmen ; and in the country, slaves were employed as the cheapest and most laborious instruments of agriculture. 
