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... rank and confequence of minifters of state * ; and , as they wifely diffembled their fecret autho- rity , he seemed to act with firmnefs , with pro- priety , and with judgment , on the most important occafions of his life and reign ...
... rank and confequence of minifters of state * ; and , as they wifely diffembled their fecret autho- rity , he seemed to act with firmnefs , with pro- priety , and with judgment , on the most important occafions of his life and reign ...
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... rank , to confume whole days in the vain dif- play of his dexterity and boldnefs in the chace . The pride and wifh of the Roman emperor to excel in an art , in which he might be furpaffed by the meanest of his flaves , reminded the nu ...
... rank , to confume whole days in the vain dif- play of his dexterity and boldnefs in the chace . The pride and wifh of the Roman emperor to excel in an art , in which he might be furpaffed by the meanest of his flaves , reminded the nu ...
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... rank might justly be confidered as a state of exile and obfcurity ; and if Maximus had obtained any civil or military office , he was not invested with the authority either of governor or general " . * Britannia fertilis provincia ...
... rank might justly be confidered as a state of exile and obfcurity ; and if Maximus had obtained any civil or military office , he was not invested with the authority either of governor or general " . * Britannia fertilis provincia ...
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... rank among the general councils 2. Their knowledge of religious truth may have been preserved by tra- dition , or it may have been communicated by inspiration ; but the fober evidence of history will not allow much weight to the ...
... rank among the general councils 2. Their knowledge of religious truth may have been preserved by tra- dition , or it may have been communicated by inspiration ; but the fober evidence of history will not allow much weight to the ...
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... rank of a second parent : Theodofius embraced , as his own , the children of his brother and fifter ; and the expreffions of his regard were extended to the moft diftant and obfcure branches of his nu- merous kindred . His familiar ...
... rank of a second parent : Theodofius embraced , as his own , the children of his brother and fifter ; and the expreffions of his regard were extended to the moft diftant and obfcure branches of his nu- merous kindred . His familiar ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1827 |
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