...a later generation. There is one other personage, at a distant period, who, with precisely the same burden of winters, asserted the same supremacy of powers. It is the celebrated Dandolo, Doge of Venice , at the age of eighty-four, of whom the historian Gibbon has said, in words strictly applicable to our own Quincy: He shone, in the last period of human life, as one of the most illustrious character...