 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 518 pages
...the sovereignty of Britain, yet admitting him to a participation of the imperial honours) Britain, destined in a future age to obtain the empire of the sea, assumed its natural and respectable station as a maritime power, -f Afterwards, while Italy was ravaged... | |
 | John Hughes - 1819 - 432 pages
...in firm compact to withstand the imperial authority. " Under his command," says Gibbon, " Britain, destined in a future age to obtain the empire of the...already assumed its natural and respectable station of a maritime power." * Dioclesian and Maximian were constrained to acknowledge in him the independence... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 592 pages
...reigned in Britain from 287 to 294. "Under his command," says Gibbon, " Britain, destined in future ages to obtain the empire of the sea, already assumed its natural and respectable station of a maritime power. His fleets rode triumphant in the Channel, commanded the mouths of the Seine and... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - Mythology, Norse - 1847 - 598 pages
...reigned in Britain ffom 287 to 294. "Under his command," says Gibbon, "Britain, destined in future ages to obtain the empire of the sea, already assumed its natural and respectable station of a maritime power. His fleets rode triumphant in the Channel, commanded the months of the Seine and... | |
 | T. S. Turner - Aldborough (North Yorkshire, England) - 1853 - 224 pages
...little below the ford where the road crossed the river. " Under the command of this emperor, Britain destined, in a future age, to obtain the empire of...respectable station as a maritime power."* Carausius was murdered by his first minister, Alectus,t and the assassin succeeded to his power and his danger.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...establishment. See Appian in ProoMn. the Columns of Hercules the terror of his name. Under his command, Britain, destined in a future age to obtain the empire of the...already assumed its natural and respectable station of a maritime power.28 By seizing the fleet of Boulogne, Carausius had deprived his master AdL?ow.... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - Archaeology - 1855 - 498 pages
...revolt, Gibbon has (chap, xiii) the following suggestive passage : — " Under his command, Britain, destined in a future age to obtain the empire of the...already assumed its natural and respectable station of a maritime power." Another revolt, that of Maximus, in the reign of Gratian, AD 375, may be mentioned,... | |
 | Algernon Percy Duke of Northumberland, William Henry Smyth - Coins, Roman - 1856 - 376 pages
...Admiral—for he is designated by both titles, while Ossian terms him the " King of Ships,"— Britain, destined in a future age to obtain the Empire of the sea, already assumed its respectable station of a maritime power ; and it is remarkable, that on a coin which he struck on his... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 664 pages
...the columns of Hercules the terror of his name. Under his command, Britain, destined in a future ago to obtain the empire of the sea, already assumed its natural and respectable station of a maritime power.28 By seizing the fleet of Boulogne, Carausius had deprived his master of the means... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1879 - 678 pages
...columns of Hercules the terror of hia name. Under his command, Britain, destined in a future age t<i obtain the empire of the sea, already assumed its natural and respectable station of a maritime power."8 By seizing the fleet of Boulogne, Carausius had deprived his master of the means... | |
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His fleets rode triumphant in the channel, commanded the mouths of the Seine and of the Rhine, ravaged the coasts of the ocean, and diffused beyond the columns of Hercules the terror of his name. 
