 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 518 pages
...practice a me>»sure of policy, which they never lost sight of. So sensible were they of the influence ot language- over national manners, that it was their...Italy, the Sabine, the Etruscan, and the Venetian, su»k into oblivion ; but in the east, the provinces were less docile than in the west. The language... | |
 | Charles Butler - Bible - 1807 - 308 pages
...THE SEVENTY. II. 1. With respect to the Style: It has been observed, that the policy of the Romans to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin language, was attended with greater success in their western, than in their eastern conquests ; so... | |
 | Alexander Beaumont - 1809 - 540 pages
...their conquests. Sensible of i n fl uence o f language over national manners, they were solicitous to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue. Thus Spain was civilized by the hand which subdued her. As soon as the barbarians were reconciled to... | |
 | Charles Butler - History, Modern - 1817 - 472 pages
...THE SEVENTY. II. i. With respect to the Style: It has been observed, that the policy of the Romans to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin language, was attended with greater success in their western, than in their eastern conquests ; so... | |
 | New Jerusalem Church - 1818 - 556 pages
...the Seventy. II. 1. With respect to the Style: It has been observed, that the policy of the Romans to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin language, was attended with greater success in their western than in their eastern conquests ; so that,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...deserving provincials to the freedom of Rome. " So sensible were the Romans of the influence of laiiguage over national manners, that it was their most serious...progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue. The eastern provinces, however, were less docile in this respect than the western ones ; and this obvious... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 590 pages
...in the capacious mind of a profound and penetrating philosopher. Gibbon says*: * Vol. i. page 60. ' So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language...progress of their arms the use of the Latin tongue. The an' cient dialects of Italy, the Sabine, the Etruscan, and the Venetian, ' sunk into oblivion : but... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1827 - 608 pages
...the capacious mind of a profound and penetrating philosopher. Gibbon says*: • Vol. i. page 60. ' So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language...progress of their arms the use of the Latin tongue. The an' cient dialects of Italy, the Snbine, the Etruscan, and the Venetian, ' sunk into oblivion : but... | |
 | Christianity - 1827 - 614 pages
...the capacious mind of a profound and penetrating philosopher. Gibbon says* : • Vol. i. page 60. ' So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language...progress of their arms the use of the Latin tongue. The an' eient dialects of Italy, the Sabine, the Etruscan, and the Venetian, ' sunk into oblivion : but... | |
 | James Logan - Celts - 1831 - 434 pages
...the term Briton is common to the whole inhabitants of the island ; yet the English, c Lib. iiL d " So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language...progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue." Gibbon. the Scots, and the Welch are distinct people, and they all use the English language, (except... | |
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So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over national manners, that it was their most serious care to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue.38 The ancient . dialects of Italy, the Sabine, the Etruscan, and... 
