 The advantage of receiving the earliest intelligence, and of conveying their orders with celerity induced the emperors to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 91edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...institution of posts J. Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles j each of them was constantly provided with forty horses,...it was easy to travel an Hundred : •:.,- :; miles 4. -llj, ..'. - •- ' •*. .•)>•••- . * Montfaucon, 1'Antiquite Expliquee, (torn. iv. p.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts.* Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or...of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred ' Montfaucon, 1'Antyiuite' Expliquee (torn, iv, p. 2, 1. i, c. 5), has described the bridges of Narni,... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1812 - 562 pages
...establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles;...forty horses, and by the help of these relays, it was eaiy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads." Mr. Gibbon adds in a note the following... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts88. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or...of them was constantly provided with forty horses, antf by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads80.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts.' Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads." The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - Genealogy - 1824 - 496 pages
...establish through their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles...of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred mles in a day along the Roman roads. The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed it by an... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...institution of posts. № Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles ; cac'h of them was constantly provided with forty horses,...these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads.81* The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed it by an Imperial... | |
 | Hunting - 1827 - 558 pages
...extensive domipjons, tlje regular i tu lion of posts. Houses were every where erected at the distance of five or six miles ; each of them was constantly...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles a-day along the Roman roads." Now,asit is my present object to form somewhat of a comparison... | |
 | Christianity - 1829 - 622 pages
...dominions the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected, at the distance of only five or six miles : each of them was constantly provided...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel one hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads." ' In a subsequent part of his history, and at a... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 616 pages
...dominions the regular institution of posts. Houses were everywhere erected, at the distance of only five or six miles : each of them was constantly provided...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel one hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads." ' In a subsequent part of his history, and at a... | |
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