 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pàgines
...fable in an mgeni. n* Supplement of M. Gaillard (tom. iii. p. 474). The Spaniards are too pr»ud i>fa victory which history: ascribes to the Gascons, and romance to the Saracens. imitated the dangerous practice of dividing his kingdoms CHAP, among his sons ; and, after his numerous... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pàgines
...emerged : But the apparent magnitude of an object is likewise enlarged by an unequal comparison; and the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert. Without injustice to his fame, I may discern some blemishes in the sanctity and greatness of the restorer... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 pàgines
...of the Homan Empire: " The apparent magnitude of an object is enlarged byan unequal comparison, as the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert." Here the thought is poetical, and the words in which it is dressed are far longer, and more sounding,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 540 pàgines
...the fable in an ingenious Supplement of M. Gaillard, (tom. 3. p. 474.) The Spaniards are too prond of a victory which history ascribes to the Gascons, and romance to the Saracens. ' Orunis homo ex sufi, proprietate legitimam decimam ad eeclesiam conferat. Experimento enim didicimns,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 pàgines
...emerged : but the apparent magnitude of an object is likewise enlarged by an unequal comparison ; and the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert. Without injustice to his fame I may discern some blemishes in the sanctity and greatness of the restorer... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pàgines
...emerged : but the apparent magnitude of an object is likewise enlarged by an unequal comparison ; and the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert. Without injustice to his fame I may discern some blemishes in the sanctity and greatness of the restorer... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pàgines
...emerged : but the apparent magnitude of an object is likewise enlarged by an unequal comparison ; and the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert. Without injustice to his fame I may discern some blemishes in the sanctity and greatness of the restorer... | |
 | 1830 - 548 pàgines
...Eginhard, (c. ix. pp. 51-56) and the fuble in an ingenious supplement of M. Gaillard, (tom. iii. p. 474). The Spaniards are too proud of a victory which history ascribes to the Gascons, and romance to the Saracem." A totally different version of this affair is given l,y Beuter in the Cronica de Valencia'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 634 pàgines
...his talents acquire any fictitious grandeur from opposition with the objects around ; for, though " the ruins of Palmyra 'derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert," his excellence lay not alone in adorning, but in cultivating the waste. His military successes were... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1832 - 546 pàgines
...his talents acquire any fictitious grandeur from opposition with the objects around ; for, though " the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the nakedness of the surrounding desert,"-f- his excellence lay not alone in adorning, but in cultivating the waste. His military successes... | |
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His real merit is doubtless enhanced by the barbarism of the nation and the times from which he emerged : but the apparent magnitude of an object is likewise enlarged by an unequal comparison ; and the ruins of Palmyra derive a casual splendour from the... 
