 Phoenicians were acquainted only with the sea-coast of Spain; avarice, as well as ambition, carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country, and almost every part of the soil was found pregnant with copper, silver, and gold.  The Lives of the Twelve Caesars - Page 313de Elisa Rogers - 1811Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Edmund Burke - 1779 - 750 pages
...the more recent hiftory of Spanifli America. The Phoenicians were acquainted only with the fea-coaft of Spain ; avarice, as well as ambition, carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country, and ahr.oft every part of the foil was found pregnant with copper, filver, and... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...more recent history of Spanish America*. The Phoenicians were acauainted only with the sea. coasts of Spain; avarice as well as ambition carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country ; and almost every part of the soil was tound pregnant with copper, silver, or... | |
 | Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 566 pages
...mines for the benefit of strangers, form an exact type of the more recent history of Spanish America". The Phoenicians were acquainted only with the sea....ambition carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country ; and almost every part of the soil was lound pregnant with copper, silver, or... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...history of Spanish America." The Phenicians were simply acquainted with the sea-coasts of Spain; but avarice as well as ambition carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country, and almost every part of the soil was found pregnant with gold, silver and copper.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...the more recent history of Spanish America.92 The Phœnicians were acquainted only with the sea-coast of Spain ; avarice, as well as ambition, carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country, and almost every part of the soil was found pregnant with copper, silver, and... | |
 | 1860 - 1122 pages
...mines for the benefit of strangers, forms an exact type of the more recent history of Spanish America. The Phoenicians were acquainted only with the sea...ambition, carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country, and almost every part of the soil was found pregnant with copper, silver and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 538 pages
...of strangers, form an exact type of the more recent history of Spanish America.108 The Phrenicians were acquainted only with the sea coast of Spain ;...ambition carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country, and almost every part of the soil was found pregnant with copper, silver, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 480 pages
...more recent history of Spanish America.108 The Phoenicians were acquainted only with the sea-coast of Spain; avarice as well as ambition carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country, and almost every part of the soil was found pregnant with copper, silver, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...the more recent history of Spanish America.92 The Phoenicians were acquainted only with the sea-coast of Spain; avarice as well as ambition carried the arms of Rome and Carthage into the heart of the country, and almost every part of the soil was found pregnant with copper, silver, and... | |
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