 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 pàgines
...(c. 9, p. 51 — £6,' and the fable in an ingenious Supplement of M. Gaillard, (torn iij. p. 474.) The Spaniards are too proud of a victory, which history...ascribes to the Gascons,* and romance to the Saracens. 100 Yet Schmidt, from the best authorities, represents tne interior disorders and oppression of his... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 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... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pàgines
...emerged: but the apparent magnitude of an object is likewise enlarged by an unequal comparison; and ught to have in the management of the state, that 1 must Without injustice to his fame I may discern some blemishes in the sanctity and greatness of the restorer... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 640 pàgines
...(c. 9, p. 51 — 66,^ and the fable in an ingenious Supplement of M. Gaillard, (torn iii. p. 474.) The Spaniards are too proud of a victory, which history ascribes to the Oascons,* and romance to the Saracens. 100 Yet Schmidt, from the best authorities, represents the interior... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 676 pàgines
...truth in Eginhard (c. 9, pp. 51-56), and the fable in an Ingenious Supplement of Gaillard (iii. 474). The Spaniards are too proud of a victory which history ascribes to the Gascons, and romance to the Saiacen*. M Yet Schmidt, from the best authorities, represents the interior disorder* and oppression... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 570 pàgines
...Carolus Magnus.] 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 460 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... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1907 - 416 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 I shall be scarcely permitted to accuse the ambition of a conqueror; but in a day of equal retribution... | |
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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... 
