 | Edward Gibbon - 1802 - 496 pages
...gradually cleared away to open a free fpace for convenient and elegant habitations. York was the feat of government; London was already enriched by commerce; and Bath was celebrated for the falutary effects of its medicinal waters. Gaul could boaft of her twelve hundred cities "; and though,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...passed the Alps, and been felt even CHAP. in the woods of Britain, which were gradually cleared away n. to open a free space for convenient and elegant habitations....York was the seat of government ; London was already en- ^ " '' riched by commerce ; and Bath was celebrated for the salutary effects of its medicinal waters.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 616 pages
...the present work will give a most extraordinary specimen of it in Egypt. — See the Peripltu, p. 43. was the seat of government, London was already enriched...commerce, and Bath was celebrated for the salutary effects of its medicinal waters. Gaul could boast of her 1200 cities ; and though in the northern parts... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...and been felt even in the woods of Britain, •which were gradually cleared away to open a free epace for convenient and elegant habitations. York •was...commerce ; and Bath was celebrated for the salutary effects of its medicinal waters. Gaul could boast of her twelve hundred cities ;' and though, in the... | |
 | John Miley - Christianity and culture - 1843 - 382 pages
...passed the Alps, and had been felt even in the woods of Britain, which were gradually cleared away, to open a free space for convenient and elegant habitations....commerce, and Bath was celebrated for the salutary effects of its medicinal waters."* • Decline and Fall, vol. i. passim. CHAPTER VI. " The corruption... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1843 - 588 pages
...had passed the Alps, and been felt even in the woods of Britain, which were gradually cleared away to open a free space for convenient and elegant habitations. York was the seal of government ; London was already enriched by commerce ; and Bath was celebrated for the salutary... | |
 | D. Davidson - Christianity - 1844 - 284 pages
...and it is probable that many more were governed by Rome. The spirit of improvement spread to Britain, York was the seat of government, London was already...enriched by commerce, and Bath was celebrated for its medicinal waters. The provinces of the East present the contrast of Roman magnificence with Turkish... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...had passed the Alps, and been felt even in the woods of Britain, which were gradually cleared away to open a free space for convenient and elegant habitations....commerce ; and Bath was celebrated for the salutary effects of its medicinal waters. Gaul could boast of her twelve hundred cities ; 15 and though, in... | |
 | George West Royston Pigott - 1856 - 308 pages
...improvement had passed the Alps and been felt even in the woods of Britain, which were gradually cleared away to open a free space for convenient and elegant habitations. York was the seat of government, London enriched with commerce, and Bath was celebrated for the salutary effects of its medicinal waters."... | |
 | David Davidson - 1857 - 804 pages
...and it is probable that many more were governed by Rome. The spirit of improvement spread to Britain, York was the seat of government, London was already...enriched by commerce, and Bath was celebrated for its medicinal waters. The provinces of the East present the contrast of Roman magnificence with Turkish... | |
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The spirit of improvement had passed the Alps, and been felt even in the woods of Britain, which were gradually cleared away to open a free space for convenient and elegant habitations. York was the seat of government; London was already enriched by commerce;... 
