The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.