| John Platts - 1825 - Počet stránok 706
...Wight to receive them, and landed in safety on the western coast ; and convinced the Britons, says Gibbon, " that a superiority of naval strength will...always protect their country from a foreign invasion." As soon as the troops were landed, the intrepid commander set fire to the ships, and marched forward... | |
| John Yonge Akerman - 1837 - Počet stránok 306
...Allectus held his fleet, as the 1 This landing of the Romans, according to Gibbon, convinced the Britons " that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreign invasion." It is difficult to say, after the lengthy preparations of Constantius, whether the invading fleets... | |
| 1877 - Počet stránok 564
...xxiii. p. 523. 422 5"S. VII. JURE 2, 77.) 423 observes Gibbon (vol. ii. p. 124), "convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreign invasion." Here I have done with Carausius. On a future occasion I shall consider how learned men have disputed... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - Počet stránok 466
...Wight to receive them, landed in safety on some part of the western coast, and convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreign invasion. Asclepiodotus had no sooner disembarked the imperial troops than he set fire to his ships ; and, as... | |
| Algernon Percy Duke of Northumberland, William Henry Smyth - 1856 - Počet stránok 372
...paragraph of this paper. f This landing of the Romans, according to Gibbon, convinced the Britons " that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreign invasion." It is difficult to say, after the lengthy preparations of Constantius, whether the invading fleets... | |
| 1861 - Počet stránok 746
...makes a remark which may be not unseasonable at the present moment, that it "convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreign invasion." The Rev. T. Myers suggested that the curiosities which could be appropriately ranged under the head... | |
| Dawson Massy - 1863 - Počet stránok 522
...the Isle of Wight to receive them, landed on some part of the West coast, and convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from foreign invasion. No sooner had the Roman admiral disembarked the Imperial troops, than he set fire... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1887 - Počet stránok 480
...Wight to receive them, landed in safety on some part of the western coast, and convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from a foreig.i invasion. Asclepiodotus had no sooner disembarked the imperial troops than he set fire to... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1893 - Počet stránok 610
...Wight to receive them, landed in safety on some part of the western coast, and convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from foreign invasion.' This reads, at first sight, like a direct negation of the principle which we have... | |
| Edward Boucher James - 1896 - Počet stránok 712
...escaped the fleet of Allectus, off the Isle of Wight, and, as Gibbon remarks, ' convinced the Britons that a superiority of naval strength will not always protect their country from foreign invasion.' Asclepiodotus burnt his ships after disembarking his troops on some part of the... | |
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