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…  and  Germany  , and other distant parts, as far as  Asia ; which brought a great number of foreign pretenders into  Rome : the slavish disposition of the senate and people, by which the wit and eloquence of the age were wholly turned … in the Mediterranean; where the language was preserved entire for many ages, after they themselves became colonies, to  Rome , and till they were over-run by the barbarous nations upon the fall of that Empire. The  Chinese  have books in …

… them died in the stable when they came to be rubbed after the first heat. Here I fancied myself in the Circus Maximus at Rome, seeing the ancient games, and the racings of the chariots and horsemen; and in this warmth of my imagination I … on any particular day to see a race and so go home again directly. … "Here I fancied myself in the Circus Maximus at Rome, seeing the ancient games, and the racings of the chariots and horsemen; and in this warmth of my imagination I …

… &c. I Sing the Assembly's Rise, Encrease and Fame, That condescends to honour Kit-Cats Name, Whose Pride, like thine, O Rome, from small Beginnings came. Oh thou! who Chief Art to the Muses dear, Whom Poets Court, and Statesmen love or fear: …

… mix Taste, wit, and mirth, with politics. Nor need I stop my tale to show, At least to readers such as you, How all that Rome esteem'd polite, Supp'd with LUCULLUS every night; LUCULLUS, who, from Pontus come, Brought conquests, and brought …

… Dans son premier voyage d'Italie, lorsqu'elle était à Rome la véritable souveraine du pape et des Romains,  on lui annonça, un jour, un seigneur nommé Warta, prince d'Albanie, …

… the Venetian aristocracy was jealous of its subjects, the Florentine democracy applied itself entirely to commerce; Rome was governed by priests, and Naples by women. War then became the business of soldiers of fortune, who spared one … What has chiefly induced severe moralists to declaim against refinement in the arts, is the example of ancient Rome, which, joining, to its poverty and rusticity, virtue and public spirit, rose to such a surprizing height of …

… for separating from a corrupt church, why did Calvin and Luther, with their followers, separate from the Church of Rome?" I answer, They did not properly separate from it; but were violently thrust out of it. They were not suffered to … his own inheritance! O think not so! Rather say with our own Church, (though in direct opposition to the Church of Rome, which maintains, "If the Priest does not minister with a  pure intention, " which no wicked man can do, "then the …