 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 pages
...in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects...been repaired in some of the fairest countries of the globe.9* CHAP. XLIV. Idea of the Roman Jurisprudence... .The larvs of the Kings. ....The Tivehe Tables... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 446 pages
...war, pestilence, and famine, x: HAP famme. afflicted the subjects of Justinian, and his xu II. . tergn is disgraced by a visible decrease of the human species,...repaired in some of the fairest countries of the globe *. * After some figures of rhetoric, tht sands of the sea, &c. Procopiu, ( Anecdot. c. 18.) attempts... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 454 pages
...subjects of Justinian, and his XLIII. icign is disgraced by a visible decrease of the hu• — man species, which has never been repaired in some of the fairest countries of the globe *.. * After some figures of rhetoric, the sands of the sea, &c. Proco->iu..'( Ane.-:dot. .. 18 ) attempts... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects...been repaired in some of the fairest countries of the globe33.' Such was the reign of Justinian. Whether husbandry .was likely to revive, and plenty to return,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 456 pages
...several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintCHAP, age withered on the ground. The triple scesv of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects of Justinian, and his reign is disgraced a visible decrease of the human species, wh, has never been repaired in some of the faires countries... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 508 pages
...in several districts of Italv the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects...repaired, in some of the fairest countries of the globe". 95 After some figures of rhetoric, the finds of the sea. Ice. Procop'mv ( Anecdot. c. 18), attempts... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...several districts ih Italy, the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine afflicted the subjects...repaired, in some of the fairest countries of the globe.' In a note he adds, that it is net wholly inadmissible to believe, one hundred millions of persons fell... | |
 | John Read (maker to the army.) - 1825 - 572 pages
...of Justinian were afflicted by the triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine ; and his reign was disgraced by a visible decrease of the human species,...repaired, in some of the fairest countries of the globe. On contemplating this enormous waste of human life, we can scarcely believe that an agent so feeble,... | |
 | John Fry - 1825 - 642 pages
...supports the Turkish crescent, he vainly boasted that he had outdone Solomon. " But the triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects...repaired, in some of the fairest countries of the globe.'' In the latter part of the century, the peace of Italy was again disturbed by the invasion of the Lombards,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects...repaired in some of the fairest countries of the globe. CHAP. XXXVII. Idea of the Roman Jurisprudence.—The Laws of the Kings. — The Twelve Tables of the... | |
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Constantinople ; that many cities of the East were left vacant; and that in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects of Justinian, and his... 
