 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...successive loss of the provinces, the sources of public and private opulence were exhausted ; the lofty tree, under whose shade, the nations of the earth...the sapless trunk was left to wither 'on the ground. Hence, curiosity and ambition no longer attracted the nations to the capital of the world ; but, if... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...Rome, now a dependant on the exarch of Ravenna, was reduced to the lowest stage of her depression. The hostile approach of the Lombards was often felt, and continually feared. The distressed inhabitants opened and shut the gates with trembling hands; and beheld from the walls their... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...successive loss of the provinces, the sources of public and private opulence were exhausted ; the lofty tree, under whose shade the nations of the earth had...branches, and the sapless trunk was left to wither in the ground ; the ministers of command and messengers of victory no longer met on the Appian and... | |
 | John Fry - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...successive losses of the provinces, the sources of public and private opulence were exhausted ; the lofty tree, under whose shade the nations of the earth had...reposed, was deprived of its leaves and branches, and the saplesstrunk was left to wither in the ground ; the ministers of command, and messengers of victory,... | |
 | Frederic Fysh - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...lowest period of her depression. The sources of public and private opulence were exhausted : the lofty tree under whose shade the nations of the earth had...the sapless trunk was left to wither on the ground. Curiosity and ambition no longer attracted the nations to the capital of the world : but if chance... | |
 | 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...sources of public and private opa" lence were exhausted; the lofty tree under whose shade the nation" of the earth had reposed, was deprived of its leaves...sapless trunk was left to wither on the ground."* We have seen, then, the simultaneous fulfilment of these separate and yet connected predictions : The... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...Rome had reached, about the close of the sixth century, the lowest period of her depression. . . . The hostile approach of the Lombards was often felt, and continually feared. Like Thebes, or Babylon, or Carthage, the name of Rome might have been erased from the earth, if the... | |
 | Jesus Christ, Author of Essays on the church - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...lowest period of her depression. The sources of public and private opulence were exhausted ; the lofty tree under whose shade the nations of the earth had...the sapless trunk was left to wither on the ground.' t We have seen, then, the simultaneous fulfilment of these separate and yet connected predictions :... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...the truth of this prediction." In the words of the historian of the Decline and Fall, "' The lofty tree, under whose shade the nations of the earth had...sapless trunk was left to wither on the ground.' The Romans in the city, ' shut or opened their gates with a trembling hand, beheld from the walls the flames... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...successive loss of the province, the sources of private and public opulence were exhausted ; the lofty tree under whose shade the nations of the earth had...of its leaves and branches, and the sapless trunk left to wither on the ground. The ministers of command and the messengers of victory no longer met... | |
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Rome," which had reached, about the close of the sixth century, the lowest period of her depression. By the removal of the seat of empire, and the successive loss of the provinces, the sources of public and private opulence were exhausted : the lofty... 
