Reflections on the Causes of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (Classic Reprint)

THE E L o G E o F XvI. D E M 0 N T E S QUI E U. Tranflated from the FRENCH of , 11. D E M A U PER T U I S. From the MONTHLY REVIEW. era the AUTHORS of the MONTHLY REVIEW. G E NT L EM E N, SIN C E you were pleafed to give a place to my lirfi letter, in your Supplement to the Reviews of the paft year, I am encou .. raged to proceed in my abfiaas of (uch foreign books as may deferve the attention of your readers. I have lately met with nothing more reinarkable than a [mall Pamphlet, bearing this title-Eloge de MonJieur de MONTESQUIEU, par M. de MAUPERTUIS. Hambourg; 12 mo. It has ahvays been the laudibleclll10LD of A2

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CONTENTS; CHAP; 1 I THE inftmcy of Rome 2 The wars; it fuflained Page 25; II Of the ftience of war as pra{/ifed by the; Romans 3S; III The methods by which the Roma1ZS raifed; themfelves to empire 41; IV I Of the Gauls 2 Of PyrrhuJ 4 Paral; leI hehuecn Carthage and Rome 4 The; war of Hannibal 45; V The flate of Greece, of 1l1acedonia, of Syria,; and of Egypt, after the depreJ1ion; of Carthage 57; VI The condt!EI 'l,vhich the Romans ohftrved, in; order to fuhdue all nations 69; VII How it was poffihle for lI-lithridates to relift; the Ramans 82; VIII Of the diviJions which always fobfifled in; the city 85; IX Two cauJes which deflroyed Rom~ 93; x Of the corruptions of the Romans 99; XI Of Sylla, Pompey, tInd Caefltr 102; XII Obfervatums 011 the flate of Rome after the; death of Caefor I 17; XIII AuguJlus I 24; XIV Tiberius I 34; XV Remarks on the emperors from Caius Caligula; to Antoninus I 40; XVI Conjiderations (;n the flate of the empire; from Antonil1US to Probus 153 X VII Changes in the Jlate Page 168; XVIU An accofmt of joirfl'new maxims received; by the·~Romalls I 79; XIX Some particulars of the grandeur of Attita; The e{}ahiifhment of the BarbarianJ accounted; for Reafons why the lVeflern; empire was overturned before that ilz; Eafl 18 7; XX I The COllquefls of Juflinian 2