 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...the use compensate the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect execution. The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature;17 and if such were the ravages of the Tyber under a firm and active government, what could... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 558 pages
...the use compensate the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect execution. The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature % iles pene absumsere urbem. Nam Tibetis insolitis auctus imbribus et ultra opinionero, vel diumitate... | |
 | Edward Cresy - 1847 - 912 pages
...devoted to the purpose of mland navigation ; and, according to Gibbon, " the servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature;" and, without doubt, agriculture would first derive advantage from their subjection, occasioning them... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1921 - 1154 pages
...in the second chapter of the third part of his great epic, writes : — Tl.e servitude of rhers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature ; and, if such were the ravages of the Tiber under a firm and active government, what could oppose,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...the use compensate the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect execution. The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature ; 17 and if such were the ravages of the Tyber under a firm and active government, what could oppose,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 628 pages
...the use compensate the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect execution. The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature ;t and if such were the ravages of the Tiber under a firm and active government, what could oppose,... | |
 | sir Edward Robert Sullivan (5th bart.) - Europe - 1855 - 338 pages
...feet, and I believe it nowhere exceeds these dimensions. " The servitude of rivers," says Gibbon, " is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature." The Nile is indeed subservient and eager to do all in its power to benefit man's condition, but it... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - Malaria - 1858 - 152 pages
...pestilences in ancient and modern times. CHAPTER X. ON THE SERVITUDE OF RIVERS. IF the servitude of rivers be the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature,* then assuredly ancient civilizations bear away the palm in this respect from the modern, and Britain... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 pages
...the use compensate the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect execution. The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of Nature ; and if such were the ravages of the Tiber under a firm and active government, what could oppose,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough - Latin language - 1876 - 222 pages
...use compensate1 the toil and cost of the tardy and imperfect execution/ Theq servitude10 of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature ; and if such were the ravages11 of the Tiber under a firm and ' By memoria. * Insert "the river,"... | |
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The servitude of rivers is the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of Nature... 
