 | Jules Michelet - 1892 - 492 sivua
...spreading through the world & profound respect for the speech of Rome." (Gibbon says, " So sensible were the Romans of the Influence of language over...manners, that it was their most serious care to extend, wilh the progrès* of their arms, the use of the Latin tone"'1.''} — TRANSLATOR. * L. Decreta, D.... | |
 | Robert George Hobbes - 1893 - 594 sivua
...\ and gave to the Missionaries generally a * The remark of Gibbon may be remembered : " So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over...progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue. The ancient dialects of Italy — the Sabine, the Etruscan, and the Venetian — sank into oblivion.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 720 sivua
...the tranquillity of the State, was intimately connected with its safety and greatness. So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over...national manners, that it was their most serious care to D:vision of extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of !he(£eekmd tue Latin tongue." The... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 480 sivua
...the tranquillity of the state, was intimately connected with its safety and greatness. So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over...with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin ** Au1. Cel1. Noctes Atticae, xvi. 13. The Emperor Hadrian expressed his surprise that the cities of... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 sivua
...eighteenth century whom modern research has neither set aside 7107- threatened to set aside ", " So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over...progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue ", " Augustus or Trajan would have blushed at employing the meanest of the Romans in those menial offices... | |
 | Inazō Nitobe - 1927 - 236 sivua
...Marseilles, Narbonne, Lyons, Toulouse, were centres of propagation. Gibbon tells us that the Romans made it their " most serious care to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue."2 It was far otherwise with the Chinese language, which found lodgment in Japan through the... | |
 | John Armstrong Crow - 1985 - 474 sivua
...sensitive to the influence of language over the national manners, and it became their immediate concern "to extend, with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue." The Latin spoken by the Roman soldiers, called vulgar Latin in order to distinguish it from the erudite... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 sivua
...the tranquillity of the state, was intimately connected with its safety and greatness. So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over...with the progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue.37 The ancient dialects of Italy, the Sabine, the Etruscan, and the Venetian, sunk into oblivion;... | |
 | Jeffrey Brooks - 2000 - 352 sivua
...sympathized. "So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over national manners." Gibbon wrote. "that it was their most serious care to extend. with the progress of their arms. the use of the Latin tongue."1' Nationalism also figured in the joint session of the academies held ostensibly to honor... | |
 | Joseph Farrell - 2001 - 170 sivua
...of the language itself. This idea was eloquently expressed by Edward Gibbon, who wrote. So sensible were the Romans of the influence of language over...progress of their arms, the use of the Latin tongue. The ancient dialects of Italy, the Sabine, the Etruscan, and the Venetian, sunk into oblivion . . .... | |
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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. 
