 | 1882 - 472 pages
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the Ocean, the Alps,...the virgin laden with the spoils of their houses and their altars. So great, indeed, was the havoc that the ecclesiastics of the day even ventured to arraign... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1884 - 568 pages
...spread from the hanks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventcen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps, and the Pyrences, was delivered to the barbarians, who drove before them, in a promiseuous erowd, the bishop,... | |
 | George Park Fisher - World history - 1885 - 788 pages
...booty on the south of the Pyrenees (409). In Gaul they "destroyed the cities, ravaged the fields, and drove before them in a promiscuous crowd, the bishop,...laden with the spoils of their houses and altars." Brief as was this period of devastation, it marks the severance of Gaul from the empire. Alaric again... | |
 | Aristocracy (Social class) - 1886 - 912 pages
...as far as the ocean, Alps, and the Pyrenees was taken by the barbarians, who drove before them in a crowd the bishop, the senator, and the virgin, laden with the spoils of their houses and altars. The priests embraced the opportunity of exhorting the Christians to repent of the sins which had provoked... | |
 | Wilhelm Brandes, Karl Schenkl - Christian poetry, Early - 1888
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the Ocean, the Alps...laden with the spoils of their houses and altars.' Ñeque haec mea tantummodo sententia fuit: sed, quod multo est grauius, Eduardus Freeman, historicorum... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1907 - 418 pages
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps,...virgin, laden with the spoils of their houses and altars.88 The ecclesiastics, to whom we are " Claudian (i. Cons. Stil. li 221, &c., l. ii. 186) describes... | |
 | Henry Bernard Cotterill - Italy - 1915 - 808 pages
...of Christians were massacred in the churches, ' the rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean and the Pyrenees, was delivered to the barbarians,...bishop, the senator, and the virgin, laden with the spoil of their homes and altars.' From these regions the Vandals and Suevi were not long afterwards... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - History - 1923 - 972 pages
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps,...laden with the spoils of their houses and altars." — E. Gibbon, History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, ch. 30. — See also ROME: Empire:... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps,...virgin, laden with the spoils of their houses and altars.91 The ecclesiastics, to whom we are indebted for this vague description of the public calamities,... | |
 | Samuel Davis Baldwin - Bible - 1854 - 508 pages
...seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country as far as the ocean, Alps, and Apennines, was delivered to the barbarians, who drove before...laden with the spoils of their houses and altars." — (Gib'borfs Home) Immediately after this, the Sueves, Vandals, and Alans swept like a tide of blood... | |
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Arras, Amiens, experienced the cruel oppression of the German yoke; and the consuming flames of war spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the... 
