Edward Gibbon Quote

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.


The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ed. 1899)


The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.