 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 pages
...in the hand of a noble Lombard.48 So rapid was the influence of climate and example, that Dres? *ni the Lombards of the fourth generation surveyed with...curiosity and affright the portraits of their savage forefathers.49 Their heads were shaven behind, but the shaggy locks hung over their eyes and mouth,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 416 pages
...hands of a noble Lombard.*1 Dress and So rapid was the influence of climate and exninn i;r rc. ample, that the Lombards of the fourth generation surveyed...portraits of their savage forefathers.° Their heads were 1 Their ignorance is proved by the silence eveij of those who professedly treat of the arts of hunting... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...influence of climate and example, Dress and that the Lombards of the fourth generation surveyed" 1 with curiosity and affright the portraits of their...savage forefathers. Their heads were shaven behind, but the shaggy locks hung over their eyes and mouth, and a long beard represented the name and character... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1830 - 442 pages
...esteem the sword and the hawk as of equal dignity and importance in the hand of a noble Lombard. (5 ) So rapid was the influence of climate and example,...affright the portraits of their savage forefathers. (6) Their heads were shaven behind, but the shaggy locks hung over their eyes and mouth, and a long... | |
 | Henry Stuart Foote - 1841 - 330 pages
...same accomplished historian,* from whose pages the extracts just given are drawn, informs us, that " so rapid was the influence of climate and example,...savage forefathers. Their heads were shaven behind, but their shaggy locks hung over their eyes and mouth, and a long beard represented the name and character... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 550 pages
...See the animated descriptkm of M. de BiiRun, Hist. Naturelle, torn. xvi. p. 239, tc. So rapid was tbe influence of climate and example, that the Lombards...curiosity and affright the portraits of their savage forefathers.(49) Their heads were shaven behind, but the shaggy locks hung over their eyes and rnouth,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 578 pages
...esteem the sword and the hawk as of equal dignity and importance in the hands of a noble Lombard.f So rapid was the influence of climate and example,...forefathers.;}; Their heads were. shaven behind, but the shaggy locks hung over their eyes and mouth, and a long beard represented the name and character... | |
 | Ernest Pariset - 1865 - 416 pages
...nécessaire de dire que dans le centre et le midi « So rapid was the influence of climate and exemple that the » Lombards of the fourth generation surveyed...affright the portraits of their savage forefathers . » (1) On nous pardonnera de répéter après les au tres une anecdote rapportée dans la vie de... | |
 | Alex Johnston Warden - 1867 - 840 pages
...clothing, in the winter season, is absolutely necessary. Gibbon says that in AD 590 the Lombards of the 4th generation surveyed with curiosity and affright the portraits of their savage forefathers. Their dress consisted of loose Linen garments, after the fashion of the Anglo-Saxons, which was decorated... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1870 - 348 pages
...sprinkle. What we now write LOUD, was formerly, and more properly, written LOW'D. — Tooke. 1 Lombard. " So rapid -was the influence of climate and example,...portraits of their savage forefathers. Their heads were shaved behind, but the shaggy locks hung over their eyes and mouths, and a LONG BEARD represented the... | |
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Their heads were. shaven behind, but the shaggy locks hung over their eyes and mouth, and a long beard represented the name and character of the nation. Their dress consisted of loose linen garments, after the fashion of the AngloSaxons, which were decorated,... 
