 | Edward Gibbon - 1857 - Liczba stron: 720
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of (Jaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps,...the Pyrenees, was delivered to the barbarians, who deployed the cities, ravaged the fields, and drove before them in a promiscuous crowd, the bishop,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1859 - Liczba stron: 520
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps,...bishop, the senator, and the virgin, laden with the «polls of their houses and altars." ii. 230. In reference, also, to the invasion of Alaric, and the... | |
 | Thomas STEPHEN (Medical Librarian of King's College, London.) - 1861 - Liczba stron: 308
...invaded and desolated Gaul, and " drove before them ? Sac Cal. ii. 255. Gate of Prophecy, i. 375-379. in a promiscuous crowd, the bishop, the senator and...virgin, laden with the spoils of their houses and altars."8 In the year 409 Spain was overrun and ravaged by the Suevi, the Vandals and the Alans, who... | |
 | George Harpur - 1862 - Liczba stron: 338
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps,...laden with the spoils of their houses and altars." J But Alaric did not confine his depredations to the * That is, those incursions that ended in the... | |
 | Samuel Davies Baldwin - 1864 - Liczba stron: 492
...seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country as far as the ocean, Alps, and Apennines, was delivered to the barbarians, who drove before...laden with the spoils of their houses and altars." — (Gibbon's Rome.) Immediately after this, the Sueves, Vandals, and Alans swept like a tide of blood... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1864 - Liczba stron: 1096
...by the forced contributions they exacted, while they "destroyed the cities, ravaged the fields, and drove before them in a promiscuous crowd the bishop,...virgin, laden with the spoils of their houses and altars (AD 406)." This invasion may be regarded as the final severance of Gaul from the Roman empire, though... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - Liczba stron: 524
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps,...laden with the spoils of their houses and altars. The ecclesiastics, to whom we are indebted for this vague description of the public calamities, embraced... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1870 - Liczba stron: 388
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greater part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps,...bishop, the senator, and the virgin, laden with the 1814.] HISTORY 01.' EUROPE. spoils of their houses and altars." The same provinces were invaded fourteen... | |
 | Edwin Heycock - 1872 - Liczba stron: 520
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps,...laden with the spoils of their houses and altars." Through the intrigues of the court of Ravenna, the character of the great Stilicho, the last of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - Liczba stron: 672
...the Rhine over the greatest pan of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive r.ountry, as far as the ocean, the Alps, and the Pyrenees, was...virgin, laden with the spoils of their houses and altars.91 The ecclesiastics, to whom we are indebted for this vague description of the public calamities,... | |
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Arras, Amiens, experienced the cruel oppression of the German yoke; and the consuming flames of war spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the... 
