 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 528 pages
...and the manners of the most opposite nations. The intemperance of the Gauls, the cunning and levity of the Greeks, the savage obstinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile temper of the d The histories of Livy (see particularly 6. 36.) are fall of the extortions of the rich, and the sufferings... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...and the manners of the most opposite nations. The intemperance of the Gauls, the cunning and levity of the Greeks, the savage obstinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile temper of the Asiatics, and the dissolute, effeminate prostitution of the Syrians, were mingled in the various multitude, which,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 pages
...and the manners of the most opposite nations. The intemperance of the Gauls, the cunning and levity of the Greeks, the savage obstinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile temper of the Asiatics, and the dissolute, effeminate prostitution of the Syrians, were mingled in the various multitude, which,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 672 pages
...and the manners of the most opposite nations. The intemperance of the Gauls, the cunning and levity of the Greeks, the savage obstinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile temper of the Asiatics, and the dissolute, effeminate prostitution of the *° The histories of Livy (see particularly vi. 36)... | |
 | Christian union - 1893 - 246 pages
...pollution of themselves and all who came in contact with their vileness. Gibbon says (i 1 1, 1 12) : " The capital attracted all the vices of the universe....of the Goths, the cunning of the Greeks, the savage ob- ' stinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile temper of the Asiatics, the effeminate prostitution... | |
 | Church Club of New York - Church history - 1893 - 236 pages
...the far provinces, or Roman officials (corrupted by residing there), flocked also around the capita], each rivalling the other in extravagance of display...of the Goths, the cunning of the Greeks, the savage ob-' stinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile tern' per of the Asiatics, the effeminate prostitution... | |
 | Archibald Wilberforce - Battles - 1899 - 536 pages
...and the manners of the most opposite nations. The intemperance of the Gauls, the cunning and levity of the Greeks, the savage obstinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile temper . of the Asiatics, and the dissolute, effeminate prostitution of the Syrians were mingled in the various multitude : which,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1907 - 418 pages
...and the manners of the most opposite nations. The intemperance of the Gauls, the cunning and levity of the Greeks, the savage obstinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile temper of the Asiatics, and the dissolute, effeminate prostitution of the Syrians, were mingled in the various multitude, which,... | |
 | Ernest Guy Stevens - Competition - 1917 - 272 pages
...and the manners of the most opposite nations. The intemperance of the Gauls, the cunning and levity of the Greeks, the savage obstinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile temper of the Asiatics, and the dissolute, effeminate prostitution of the Syrians, were mingled in the various multitude, which,... | |
 | Rutherford Hamilton Towner - Civilization - 1923 - 312 pages
...and the manners of the most opposite nations. The intemperance of the Gauls, the cunning and levity of the Greeks, the savage obstinacy of the Egyptians and Jews, the servile temper of the Asiatics, and the dissolute, effeminate prostitution of the Syrians, were mingled in the various multitude, which,... | |
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... the manumission of slaves, and the influx of strangers. As early as the time of Hadrian, it was the just complaint of the ingenuous natives, that the capital had attracted the vices of the universe, and the manners of the most opposite nations. The... 
