Цитаты из книги The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (7 volume set)

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13 января 2019 г., 16:08

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“But the nobles of Rome were more tenacious of property than of freedom.”

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13 января 2019 г., 16:06

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“The small remainder of this destroying host returned on board their vessels; and measuring back their way through the Hellespont and the Bosphorus, ravaged in their passage the shores of Troy... As soon as they found themselves in safety within the basin of the Euxine, they landed at Anchialus in Thrace, near the foot of…

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13 января 2019 г., 16:03

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“...those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre.”

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13 января 2019 г., 16:02

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“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”

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13 января 2019 г., 16:00

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“In the general account of this war, it is easy to discover the opposite prejudices of the Gothic and the Grecian writer. In carelessness alone they are alike.”

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13 января 2019 г., 15:59

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“The plenty of game and fish, the innumerable bee-hives deposited in the hollow of old trees, and in the cavities of rocks, and forming, even in that rude age, a valuable branch of commerce, the size of the cattle, the temperature of the air, the aptness of the soil for every species of grain, and the luxuriancy of the…

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Avyvav

13 января 2019 г., 15:55

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“The German huts, open, on every side, to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity, than the walls, the bolts, and the eunuchs of a Persian haram.”

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13 января 2019 г., 15:53

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“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.”