| Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 750 pages
...enjoyment of pleafure was the fole end of their creation ; and were contented to remain as idle fpeflators of the events of war, as they were of the events of...thefe laft events, they feemed to feel themfelves more intereded. Even the emperors had, during a long time, accultomed them to this luxurious effeminacy.... | |
| History - 1788 - 642 pages
...their creation ; and were contented to remain as idle fpeftators of the events of war, as they w«re of the events of the Circus; with this difference...interefted. Even the Emperors had, during a long time, accullomed them to this luxurious effeminacy. " I go (faid Aurclius to them, in one of his edicts)... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 638 pages
...enjoyment of pleafure was the fole end of their creation ; and were contented to remain as idle fpeclators of the events of war, as they were of the events of...Circus ; with this difference only, that in thefe lift events they feemed to feel themfelves more intereftcd. Even the Emperors had, during a long time,... | |
| History - 1788 - 638 pages
...enjoyment of pleafure was the fole end of their creation ; and were contented to remain as idle fpeaators of the events of war, as they were of the events of the Circus ; with this difference only, that to ihefe laft events they feemed to tal themfelves more intereftcd. Even the Emperors had, during a... | |
| François Jean marquis de Chastellux - Social history - 1792 - 504 pages
...the enjoyment of pleafure was the Ible end of VOL. I. C c their their creation ; and were contented to remain as idle fpectators of the events of war,...thefe laft events, they feemed to feel themfelves moreinterefted. Even the emperors had, during a long time, accuftomed them to this luxurious effeminacy.... | |
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