 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...the solid construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of...an easy and familiar intercourse; but their primary pbject had been to facilitate the marches of the> legions ; nor was any country considered as completely... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...solid construction of the Roman highways, '"*~" whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces hy an easy and familiar intercourse ; but their primary object had been to facilitate the marches of... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - Genealogy - 1824 - 496 pages
...with granite. Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effect of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant protranquillity: he had favourable opportunities, not only for civilizing the rude inhabitants, but... | |
 | John Kaye (bp. of Lincoln.) - 1826 - 614 pages
...Gibbon. Speaking of the public roads, as they existed in the time of the Antonines, he says 164 that " they united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse." With respect to the Christians in particular, he 165 states that, by the institution of provincial... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...Roman highways, whose rmness has not entirely yielded to the efforts of fifteen centuries. They lited the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar tercourse ; but their primary object had been to facilitate the marches ' the legions ; nor was any... | |
 | Henry Brooke Parnell (1st baron Congleton.) - 1833 - 488 pages
...stations. " Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways, that their firmness has not entirely yielded to the effect of fifteen centuries. " They...and familiar intercourse ; but their primary object was to facilitate the marches of their legions." f After enumerating all the cities in the different... | |
 | Sir Henry Parnell - 1838 - 512 pages
...stations. " Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways, that their firmness has not entirely yielded to the effect of fifteen centuries. " They...and familiar intercourse ; but their primary object was to facilitate the marches of their legions." * After enumerating all the cities in the different... | |
 | Henry Davis - 1844 - 224 pages
...entirely yielded to the effort of fifteen centuries to destroy them. They united the subjects of the most1 distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse; but their primary object bad been to facilitate the marches of the legions; nor was any country considered as completely subdued,... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Nathan Welby Fiske - Art - 1849 - 766 pages
...barrelled, that no water might lie upon it." — "The public roads were accurately divided by mile-stones. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy intercourse; but their primary object had been to facilitate the march of the legions. The advantage... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Biography - 1856 - 304 pages
...with granite. Such was the solid construction of the Roman highways, whose firmness has not entirely yielded to the effect of fifteen centuries. They united the subjects of the most distant provinces hy an easy and familiar intercourse ; but their primary object had been to facilitate the marches of... | |
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They united the subjects of the most distant provinces by an easy and familiar intercourse; out their primary object had been to facilitate the marches of the legions; nor was any country considered as completely subdued, till it had been rendered, in... 
