 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...in peace or war, with the successors of Heraclius. Alone in the universe, the self-satisfied CHAP. pride of the Greeks was not disturbed by the comparison...mingled by the expeditions to the Holy Land ; and it is under the Coranenian dynasty that a faint emulation of knowledge and military virtue was re-kindled... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 pages
...manners were rude, and they were rarely connected, in peace or war, with the successors of Heraclius. Alone in the universe, the self-satisfied pride of...and Asia were mingled by the expeditions to the Holy Laud ; and it is under the Comnenian dynasty that a faint emulation of knowledge and military virtue... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 632 pages
...manners were rude, and they were rarely connected, in peace or war, with the successors of Heraclius. Alone in the universe, the self-satisfied pride of...mingled by the expeditions to the Holy Land ; and it is under the Comnenian dynasty that a faint emulation of knowledge and military virtue was rekindled in... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - Authors - 1893 - 340 pages
...degraded to an abject and languid temper, the natural effect of their solitary and insulated state. Alone in the universe, the self-satisfied pride of...not disturbed by the comparison of foreign merit. . . . Their prose is soaring to the vicious affectation of poetry ; their poetry is sinking below the... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - Authors and readers - 1893 - 344 pages
...city verses." The change first comes when there is a break in the insulation. Gibbon continues : " The nations of Europe and Asia were mingled by the expeditions to the Holy Land, and it is under the Comnenian dynasty that a faint emulation of knowledge and of military virtue was rekindled... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 640 pages
...manners were rude, and they were rarely connected, in peace or war, with the successors of Heraclius. Alone in the universe, the self-satisfied pride of...mingled by the expeditions to the Holy Land ; and it s under the Comnenian dynasty that a faint emulation of Knowledge and military virtue was rekindled... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 676 pages
...connected, in peace or war, with the successors of Heraclius. Alone in the universe, the self -satisfied pride of the Greeks was not disturbed by the comparison...mingled by the expeditions to the Holy Land; and it is under the Comnenian dynasty that a faint emulation of knowledge and military virtue was rekindled in... | |
 | 1908 - 954 pages
...misjudgment, regarded only the physical power of other nations. Gibbon could say of the Byzantine Empire : "Alone in the universe, the self-satisfied pride of...urge their speed nor judges to crown their victory." Now, however, there may be seen plainly the effects of a long-continued process which is breaking down... | |
 | Elihu Root - International law and relations - 1908 - 20 pages
...misjudgment, regarded only the physical power of other nations. Gibbon could say of the Byzantine Empire: "Alone in the universe, the self-satisfied pride of...urge their speed nor judges to crown their victory." Now, however, there may be seen plainly the effects of a longcontinued process which is breaking down... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1908 - 1054 pages
...misjudgment, regarded only the physical power of other nations. Gibbon could say of the Byzantine Empire : "Alone in the universe, the self-satisfied pride of...urge their speed nor judges to crown their victory." Now, however, there may be seen plainly the effects of a long-continued process which is breaking down... | |
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Alone in the universe, the self-satisfied pride of the Greeks was not disturbed by the comparison of foreign merit; and it is no wonder if they fainted in the race, since they had neither competitors to urge their speed, nor judges to crown their victory. 
