The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2Baudry's European Library, 1840 |
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Side 5
... perhaps his own courage , exposed him to sngle combat with a Sarmatian ( Anonym . p . 710. ) , and with a monstrous lion . See Praxagoras apid Photium , p . 63. Praxagoras , an Athenian philosopher , had written a life of Constantine ...
... perhaps his own courage , exposed him to sngle combat with a Sarmatian ( Anonym . p . 710. ) , and with a monstrous lion . See Praxagoras apid Photium , p . 63. Praxagoras , an Athenian philosopher , had written a life of Constantine ...
Side 6
... perhaps the first instance of a barbarian king , who assisted the Roman arms with an independent body of his own subjects . The practice grew familiar , and at last became fatal . ( 16 ) His panegyrist Eumenius ( vii . 8. ) ventures to ...
... perhaps the first instance of a barbarian king , who assisted the Roman arms with an independent body of his own subjects . The practice grew familiar , and at last became fatal . ( 16 ) His panegyrist Eumenius ( vii . 8. ) ventures to ...
Side 8
... perhaps the exigencies of the state , had induced him to make a very strict and rigorous inquisition into the property of his subjects , for the purpose of a general taxation , both on their lands and on their persons . A very minute ...
... perhaps the exigencies of the state , had induced him to make a very strict and rigorous inquisition into the property of his subjects , for the purpose of a general taxation , both on their lands and on their persons . A very minute ...
Side 13
... perhaps of their youth and obscurity . It had been cemented by the freedom and dangers of a military life ; they had advanced almost by equal steps through the successive honours of the service ; and as soon as Galerius was invested ...
... perhaps of their youth and obscurity . It had been cemented by the freedom and dangers of a military life ; they had advanced almost by equal steps through the successive honours of the service ; and as soon as Galerius was invested ...
Side 22
... perhaps , have succeeded in their design , had not their experienced adversary embraced the same method of defence , which in similar circumstances had been practised by Aurelian . The skilful evolutions of Constantine divided and ...
... perhaps , have succeeded in their design , had not their experienced adversary embraced the same method of defence , which in similar circumstances had been practised by Aurelian . The skilful evolutions of Constantine divided and ...
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