Histoire des Gaulois, par M. Amadée Thierry. 3 tomes. Paris: 1835.
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Greece under the Romans. By George Finlay, K.R.G. William Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh and London. 1844.
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“With scorn.”—This has arisen from two causes: one is the habit of regarding the whole Roman empire as in its “decline” from so early a period as that of Commodus; agreeably to which conceit, it would naturally follow that, during its latter stages, the Eastern empire must have been absolutely in its dotage. If already declining in the second century, then, from the tenth to the fifteenth it must have been paralytic and bed-ridden. The other cause may be found in the accidental but reasonable hostility of the Byzantine court to the first Crusaders, as also in the disadvantageous comparison with respect to manly virtues between the simplicity of these western children, and the refined dissimulation of the Byzantines.