 The advantage of receiving the earliest intelligence, and of conveying their orders with celerity induced the emperors to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Pàgina 91editat per - 1845Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 494 pàgines
...institution of posts J. Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles j each of them was constantly provided with forty horses,...it was easy to travel an Hundred : •:.,- :; miles 4. -llj, ..'. - •- ' •*. .•)>•••- . * Montfaucon, 1'Antiquite Expliquee, (torn. iv. p.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 pàgines
...to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts.* Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or...of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred ' Montfaucon, 1'Antyiuite' Expliquee (torn, iv, p. 2, 1. i, c. 5), has described the bridges of Narni,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 562 pàgines
...establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles;...forty horses, and by the help of these relays, it was eaiy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads." Mr. Gibbon adds in a note the following... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 pàgines
...to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts88. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or...of them was constantly provided with forty horses, antf by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads80.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pàgines
...to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts.' Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads." The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - 1824 - 496 pàgines
...establish through their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles...of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred mles in a day along the Roman roads. The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed it by an... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 468 pàgines
...institution of posts. № Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles ; cac'h of them was constantly provided with forty horses,...these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads.81* The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed it by an Imperial... | |
 | 1827 - 558 pàgines
...extensive domipjons, tlje regular i tu lion of posts. Houses were every where erected at the distance of five or six miles ; each of them was constantly...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles a-day along the Roman roads." Now,asit is my present object to form somewhat of a comparison... | |
 | 1829 - 622 pàgines
...dominions the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected, at the distance of only five or six miles : each of them was constantly provided...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel one hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads." ' In a subsequent part of his history, and at a... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 616 pàgines
...dominions the regular institution of posts. Houses were everywhere erected, at the distance of only five or six miles : each of them was constantly provided...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel one hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads." ' In a subsequent part of his history, and at a... | |
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