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...Europeans live here, of the plague, I should be delighted with making it my residence for many months. The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth,...was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantine the Great, in making this city the capital of the East. Nothing in the world can equal in beauty the...

...the commerce of the ancient world34. The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth, Foundsunited in a single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice...reflect a becoming majesty on the origin of great cities35, 23 See Belon. Observations, c. 72. — 76. Among a variety of different species, the Pelamides,...

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...of the ancient world.*"* Foundation of The prospect of beauty, of safety, the city. am| Of wcaith, united in a single spot, was sufficient to justify...reflect a becoming majesty on the origin of great cities,2^ the emperor was desirous of ascribing his resolution, not so much to the uncertain counsels...

...the commerce of the ancient world.' Foundation of The prospect of beauty, of safety, and the city. of wealth, united in a single spot, was sufficient...reflect a becoming majesty on the origin of great cities,6 the emperor was desirous of ascribing his resolution, not so much to the uncertain counsels...

...sunt, maris tamen navigandiquc commoditatc veluti junguntur. A sinistra vero Pontus est Euxinus, &c. The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth,...sufficient to justify the choice of Constantine. But as ottl">cUy< some decent mixture of prodigy and fable has, in every age, been supposed to reflect a becoming...

...commerce of the ancient world.24 Founda- The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth, cit?.° 1e united in a single spot, was sufficient to justify...age, been supposed to reflect a becoming majesty on " Pocock's Description of the East,, vo1. ii. part ii. p. 127. His plan of the seven hills is clear...

...passer as myself to dare to speak : Gibbon must have indeed paused to frame his magic sentences: " The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth,...single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantinople." He then goes on to decry the weakness which needed the fabrication of a miracle necessary...

...speak : Gibbon must have indeed paused to frame GIBBON 01T CONSTANTINOPLE. 2C9 his magic sentences : " The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth,...single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantinople." He then goes on to decry the weakness which needed the fabrication of a miracle necessary...