 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 strani
...expression, which is recorded in the eighUi century, in the fragments of the venerable Bede: " As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand ; when " the...fall; when .Rome falls, the " world will fall."** In the modern system of war, a situation commanded by three hills would not be chosen for a fortress... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 strani
...expression, which is recorded in the eighth century, in the fragments of the venerable Bede: "As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; • when the...Rome will fall; when Rome " falls, the world will fall52." In the modern system of war, a situation commanded by three hills would not he chosen for... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1820 - 464 strani
...records the memorable prophesy of the pilgrims in that age — " While the Coliseum stands, Rome will stand — when the Coliseum falls, Rome will fall — when Rome falls, the world will fall."* * See concluding chapter of the Decline and Fall. The world was very near its fall, indeed, a few years... | |
 | 1821 - 400 strani
...northern pilgrims, - who saw it in the eighth century, recorded by the venerable Bede : — " As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum...will fall ; when Rome falls, the world will fall." But what neglect and the ravages of time could not have done, the struggles of contending factions,... | |
 | Edward Burton - 1828 - 344 strani
...have received the account of this building from the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims. He says of it, " As long as the Coliseum stands, " Rome shall stand : when the...Rome will fall : when Rome falls, the world " will fall."y We may contrast with this the words of Martial, who saw it in all its splendour, when first... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1829 - 482 strani
...233,) pronouucts the rapine of the Barbarians to bo the unani germanamque causam {огатШшхц when the Coliseum falls, Rome will fall ; when Rome falls, the world \yill fall."(52) In the modern system of war, a situation commanded by three hills would not be chosen... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 480 strani
...Rome in the eighth century, is recorded by the Venerable Bede, and thus given by Gibbon : ' As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum...will fall ; when Rome falls, the world will fall.' — Gibbon, c. ult. the Alban hills may again open their dreadful a: tillery upon the city, or that... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1831 - 214 strani
...suos ulcisci," &c. &c. An, I. § 88. t The Coliseum ; of which an ancient writer says, " As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand ; when the Coliseum falls, Rome will fall; and when Rome falls, the world will fall." The Coliseum is said to be so called from a colossal statue... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 392 strani
...et Roma ; quando cadet Colysseus, cadet Roma ; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus." — So Ion:? as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand : when the Coliseum...will fall ; when Rome falls, the world will fall. Religious veneration united probably with the impressive recollection of that stupendous building to... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 354 strani
...et Roma ; quando cadet Colysaeus, cadet Roma ; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus." — So long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand : when the Coliseum...will fall ; when Rome falls, the world will fall. Religious veneration united probably with the impressive recollection of that stupendous building to... | |
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As long as the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand ; when the Coliseum falls, Rome will fall; when Rome falls, the world will fall. 
