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and elegant habitations. York was the seat of governement; London was already enriched by commerce; and Bath was celebrated for the salutary effects of his medicinal waters.
Traduzione Pisana.
Lo spirito di miglioramento avea passato le alpi, e si sentiva ancora nei boschi della Britannia. York era la sede del Governo, e già Londra si arricchiva col commercio.
Detta Traduzione emendata.
- Tomo I.° pag. 86.
Lo spirito di miglioramento avea passato le alpi, e si sentiva perfino nei boschi della Britannia, che a poco a poco venivano scomparendo per dar luogo a comode ed eleganti abitazioni. York era la sede del Governo, Londra già si arricchiva col commercio, e Bath era celebre pel salutare effetto delle medicinali sue acque.
- Tomo I.° pag. 411 ediz. ingl.
The consciousness of his decline engaged him to share the throne with a younger and more active associate: the emergency of the times demanded a general no less than a prince; and the experience of the Roman censor might have directed him where to bestow the Imperial purple, as the reward of military merit. But instead of making a judicions choice, which would have confirmed his reign and endeared his memory, Valerian, consulting only the dictates of affection or vanity, immediatey invested with the supreme honours his son Gallienus, a youth whose effeminate vices had been hitherto concealed by the oscurity of a private station. The joint governement of the father and the son subsisted about seven, and the sole administration of Gallienus continued about eight years. But the whole period was one, uninterrupted series of coufusion and calamity.
