The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1Pub One Info, 1792 |
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Side xii
... Some Exceptions with regard to Learning - 372 ----- with regard to Rank and_Fortune _'374 -' _ . - - Christianity most favourably received by the Poor and 2'-**l-*si' 2- . Simple * - - - '375 . Rejected by some eminent Men of the first ...
... Some Exceptions with regard to Learning - 372 ----- with regard to Rank and_Fortune _'374 -' _ . - - Christianity most favourably received by the Poor and 2'-**l-*si' 2- . Simple * - - - '375 . Rejected by some eminent Men of the first ...
Side 5
... Some unguarded expreffions which dropt from Claudius, were officially tranfmitted to the royal ear. . The emperor's answer to an 'officer of confidence, describes in very lively colours his own character and that of the times. V There ...
... Some unguarded expreffions which dropt from Claudius, were officially tranfmitted to the royal ear. . The emperor's answer to an 'officer of confidence, describes in very lively colours his own character and that of the times. V There ...
Side 12
... some insurmountable diffisiculty, the fatigue, perhaps, or the disobedience, of the conquerors, prevented Claudius from completingct in one day-the destruction of the Goths. The war was diffused over the provinces of 7 Maesia, Thrace ...
... some insurmountable diffisiculty, the fatigue, perhaps, or the disobedience, of the conquerors, prevented Claudius from completingct in one day-the destruction of the Goths. The war was diffused over the provinces of 7 Maesia, Thrace ...
Side 16
... some memorable atchievement. He put an end to the Gothic war, chastised the Germans who invaded Italy, rec'overed Gaul, Spain, and Britain out of the hands of Tetricus, and destroyed the proud xnonarchy \ 'which Zenobia had erected in ...
... some memorable atchievement. He put an end to the Gothic war, chastised the Germans who invaded Italy, rec'overed Gaul, Spain, and Britain out of the hands of Tetricus, and destroyed the proud xnonarchy \ 'which Zenobia had erected in ...
Side 21
... some care to conciliate and explain them. 16 Cantoclarus,- with his usual accuracy, ehuses to translate three hundred thousand: his version is equallyrepugnant to sense' and to grammar. 17 We may rcmark, as an instance of had taste ...
... some care to conciliate and explain them. 16 Cantoclarus,- with his usual accuracy, ehuses to translate three hundred thousand: his version is equallyrepugnant to sense' and to grammar. 17 We may rcmark, as an instance of had taste ...
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