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... safety by the instant secrifice of every obnoxious subject. The emperor expatiated on the mischiefs of a lawlefs caprice which the soldiers could only gratify at the expence of their own blood z as their seditious elections had so ...
... safety by the instant secrifice of every obnoxious subject. The emperor expatiated on the mischiefs of a lawlefs caprice which the soldiers could only gratify at the expence of their own blood z as their seditious elections had so ...
Side 26
... safety of Rome, still hung on their rear, found in this place the decisive moment, of giving them a total and irretrievable defeat '7. The flying remnant of their host was exterminated in a third and last battle near Pavia; and Italy ...
... safety of Rome, still hung on their rear, found in this place the decisive moment, of giving them a total and irretrievable defeat '7. The flying remnant of their host was exterminated in a third and last battle near Pavia; and Italy ...
Side 28
... safety of the srontier camps ", were very sarfrom entertaining a suspicion, that it would ever become necessary to fortify the seat of empire against the inroads of the barbarians '5. The victory of Claudius over the Goths, and the ...
... safety of the srontier camps ", were very sarfrom entertaining a suspicion, that it would ever become necessary to fortify the seat of empire against the inroads of the barbarians '5. The victory of Claudius over the Goths, and the ...
Side 54
... safety endangered, he disregarded the rules of evidence, and the proportion of punishments. The unprovoked rebellion with which the Romans rewarded his services, exasperated his haughty spirit. The noblest samilies of the capital were ...
... safety endangered, he disregarded the rules of evidence, and the proportion of punishments. The unprovoked rebellion with which the Romans rewarded his services, exasperated his haughty spirit. The noblest samilies of the capital were ...
Side 58
... safety and dignity to the Cap ' e of an armed multitude. The' strength of legions' was, indeed, a pledge of their sincerity,since those who 'may command are seldom reduced to 'the necesiity of dissembling; but could it naturally be ...
... safety and dignity to the Cap ' e of an armed multitude. The' strength of legions' was, indeed, a pledge of their sincerity,since those who 'may command are seldom reduced to 'the necesiity of dissembling; but could it naturally be ...
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