The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 2T. Cadell, 1828 |
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... persons whom Galerius promoted to the rank of Cæsar were much better suited to serve the views of his ambition ; and their principal recom- mendation seems to have consisted in the want of merit or personal consequence . The first of ...
... persons whom Galerius promoted to the rank of Cæsar were much better suited to serve the views of his ambition ; and their principal recom- mendation seems to have consisted in the want of merit or personal consequence . The first of ...
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... persons . A very minute survey appears to have been taken of their real estates ; and wherever there was the slightest suspicion of con- cealment , torture was very freely employed to ob- tain a sincere declaration of their personal ...
... persons . A very minute survey appears to have been taken of their real estates ; and wherever there was the slightest suspicion of con- cealment , torture was very freely employed to ob- tain a sincere declaration of their personal ...
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... person , was soon con- vinced that he might waste his time and his army in the fruitless enterprise , and that he had nothing to hope either from force or famine . With an art more suitable to the character of Diocletian than to his own ...
... person , was soon con- vinced that he might waste his time and his army in the fruitless enterprise , and that he had nothing to hope either from force or famine . With an art more suitable to the character of Diocletian than to his own ...
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... person of Maximian . A secret but irrevocable February . sentence of death was pronounced against the usurper , he obtained only the same favour which he had in- dulged to Severus , and it was published to the world , that , oppressed ...
... person of Maximian . A secret but irrevocable February . sentence of death was pronounced against the usurper , he obtained only the same favour which he had in- dulged to Severus , and it was published to the world , that , oppressed ...
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... person with an excess of valour which almost dege- nerated into rashness ; and they conjured him for the future to pay more regard to the preservation of a life , in which the safety of Rome and of the empire was involved . h and fears ...
... person with an excess of valour which almost dege- nerated into rashness ; and they conjured him for the future to pay more regard to the preservation of a life , in which the safety of Rome and of the empire was involved . h and fears ...
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