Edward Gibbon Quote

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.

The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith (ed. 1854)

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to...

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to...

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to...

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to...