 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 494 pàgines
...institution of posts J. Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles j each of them was constantly provided with forty horses,...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel an Hundred : •:.,- :; miles 4. -llj, ..'. - •- ' •*. .•)>•••- . * Montfaucon, 1'Antiquite... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 pàgines
...dominions, the regular institution of posts.* Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or six miles ; each of them was constantly provided...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred ' Montfaucon, 1'Antyiuite' Expliquee (torn, iv, p. 2, 1. i, c. 5), has described the bridges... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 562 pàgines
...dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles; each of them was constantly provided...forty horses, and by the help of these relays, it was eaiy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads." Mr. Gibbon adds in a note the following... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 pàgines
...dominions, the regular institution of posts88. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or six miles ; each of them was constantly provided with forty horses, antf by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads80.... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - 1824 - 496 pàgines
...dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles ; each of them was constantly provided...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred mles in a day along the Roman roads. The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 468 pàgines
...institution of posts. № Houses were every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles ; cac'h of them was constantly provided with forty horses,...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads.81* The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed... | |
 | 1827 - 558 pàgines
...extensive domipjons, tlje regular i tu lion of posts. Houses were every where erected at the distance of five or six miles ; each of them was constantly provided...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles a-day along the Roman roads." Now,asit is my present object to form somewhat of a comparison... | |
 | 1829 - 622 pàgines
...establish throughout their extensive dominions the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected, at the distance of only five or six miles...later period, when Alaric besieged the city of Rome in 4O8, Gibbon enters more particularly into an investigation of the wealth of the Roman senators. After... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 412 pàgines
...dominions the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected, at the distance only of five or six miles ; each of them was constantly provided...by the help of these relays it was easy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads.' Mr. Gibbon adds in a note the following anecdote :... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 750 pàgines
...everywhere erected at distances of five or six miles, each of which was constantly provided with 40 horses, and by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel 100 miles a-day along the Roman roads. A magistrate of high rank once posted, in the 5th century, from... | |
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The advantage of receiving the earliest intelligence, and of conveying their orders with celerity, induced the emperors to establish throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. 
