 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 494 páginas
...of the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves the accountable ministers of the laws. Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic,... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 páginas
...carefully preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of libertv, and were pleased with considering themselves as the accountable ministers of the laws.' Decl. and Fall of the Rom. Emp. vol. I. 8vo. 1792, p. 126. 16 Among others, it was adopted by the abbot... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 páginas
...forms of the civil administration were carefully governed by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased...themselves as the accountable ministers of the laws."* Such a state of things as this, many would imagine could be little inferior to a millenium, as it respected... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 páginas
...forms of the civil administration were carefully governed by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased...themselves as the accountable ministers of the laws."* Such a state of things as this, many would imagine could be little inferior to a millenium, as it respected... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 páginas
...administration were carefully preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted ia the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering...themselves as the accountable ministers of the laws. Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic, had the Romans of their days been capable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 páginas
...forms of the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva,Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselvesas the accountable ministers of the laws. Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the... | |
 | 1828 - 598 páginas
...of the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves the accountable ministers of the laws. Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 páginas
...of the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves the accountable ministers of the laws. Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 páginas
...of the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves the accountable ministers of the laws. Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic,... | |
 | Philip Allwood - 1829 - 538 páginas
...forms of civil administration were carefully " preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Adrian, and the " Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, " and were...themselves " as the accountable ministers of the laws." " pride of virtue, and by the exquisite delight of " beholding the general happiness of which they... | |
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The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the Antonines,... 
