...present, confined in the isle of Capreae, but she was, * " The power of instruction," observes Gibbon, " is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous." ere long, put to death ; and a similar fate soon befell her rival, Crispina, on account of adultery....

...Herodian, the Augustan History, and the Epitomators. t " The power of instruction," observes Gibbon, " is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous." his own person given his son an example of all the virtues, and had surrounded him with the ablest...

...of young Commodus, to correct his growing vices, and to render him worthy of the throne for which he was designed. But the power of instruction is seldom...moment, obliterated by the whisper of a profligate favourite ; and Marcus himself blasted the fruits of this laboured education, by admitting his son,...

...forming his character, is not by any means so certain. It has been well observed by Gibbon, that " the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is superfluous." Washington, we apprehend, would have been no less Washington, had Sir Matthew Halo never...

...forming his character, is not by any means so certain. It has been well observed by Gibbon, that " the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is superfluous." Washington, we apprehend, would have been no less Washington, had Sir Matthew Hale never...

...forming his character, is not by any means so certain. It has been well observed by Gibbon, that " the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is superfluous." Washington, we apprehend, would have been no less Washington, had Sir Matthew Hale never...

...tendency of sound knowledge, good science, and pure art, it must be acknowledged, as Gibbon has said, that "the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy,...happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous;" and as it is with the individual, who is good only according as he is pious, so is it with the nation....

...rechtlichen Mann.*) l) The History of the dec], and fall of the Rom. Empire, Leips. 1829, vol. I, p. 117: But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy,...happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Diese melancholische Bemerkung ist gemacht mit Rücksicht auf die Sorgfalt, womit ein Commodus erzogen...

...Does that spirit which makes the good citizen come from any special training at all t Gibbon says that the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy...happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. This may be a border-line statement, and yet any one who tries to set his actual experience with men...

...satisfaction to find our opinion as to the uselessness of such training confirmed by Gibbon's remark that " the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy...happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous." 1 It seems clear then that this second class may be 1 " Decline and Fall," cap. iv. relegated to "...