 | Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 750 pages
...travel an hundred miles in a day along- the Roman roads*. The irle of the poils was allowed to thofe who claimed it by an imperial mandate; but though. originally intended for the public fervice, it was fometimes indulged to the bufinefs or conveniency of private citizens f. Nor was the... | |
 | History - 1788 - 638 pages
...to travel an hundred miles in a day atong the Roman roads*. The ufe of the pods was allowed to thofe who claimed it by an imperial mandate ; but though originally intended for the public fervice, it was fometimes indulged to the bulinefs or conveniency of private citizens -f-. Nor was... | |
 | History - 1788 - 642 pages
...travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads *. ' The ufe of the pofts was allowed to thofe who claimed it by an imperial mandate ; but though .originally intended for the public fervice, it was fometimes indulged to 'the bulinefs or conveniency of private citizens t . Nor was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 638 pages
...travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads*. The ufe ot" tbe pods was allowed to ihofe who claimed it by an imperial mandate ; but though originally intended for the public fervice, it was fometimes indulged to the bulinefs or conveniency of private citizens f. No» was the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...miles in 'a day alpng the Roman roads." The CHAP. use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed H> it by an imperial mandate ; but though originally...indulged to the business or conveniency of private citizens.1 Nor was the com-Naviga. munication of the* Roman empire less free andtion> open by sea than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...the help of these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads80. The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed...service, it was sometimes indulged to the business Naviga- or conveniency of private citizens30. No* was the tion, communication of the Roman empire less... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...was constantly provided with forty horses, and, by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads." The...who claimed it by an imperial mandate ; but though origin141. 15. Tyre, 252. 16. Jerusalem, 168. In all, four thousand and eighty Roman, or three thousand... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - Genealogy - 1824 - 496 pages
...Roman roads. The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed it by an Imperial mandate ; and though originally intended for the public service, it was sometimes indulged to the business or convenience of private citizens." — Gibbon, vol. i., c. 2., p. 81-2. 8vo. Montfaucon 1° A illiquid"... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...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 it by an Imperial mandate ; but «hough originally intended for the public service, it was sometimes indulged to the business or convenicncy... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Classical antiquities - 1837 - 372 pages
...was constantly provided with forty horses, and by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads. The...the business or conveniency of private citizens.' § 53. There were eight principal (nidges over the Tiber, which flowed through the city from the north;... | |
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The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed it by an Imperial mandate; but though originally intended for the public service, it was sometimes indulged to the business or conveniency of private citizens. 
