The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 5Baudry's European Library, 1840 |
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Side vi
... may have exhausted , the indulgence of the Public ; that , in the repetition of similar attempts , a success- ful Author has much more to lose than he can hope to gain ; and the first months of that I am now descending VI PREFACE .
... may have exhausted , the indulgence of the Public ; that , in the repetition of similar attempts , a success- ful Author has much more to lose than he can hope to gain ; and the first months of that I am now descending VI PREFACE .
Side 3
... success of his ambition . But the palace of Constantinople was ruled by female influence , and agitated by female passions : and Verina , the widow of Leo , claiming his empire as her own , pronounced a sentence of deposition against ...
... success of his ambition . But the palace of Constantinople was ruled by female influence , and agitated by female passions : and Verina , the widow of Leo , claiming his empire as her own , pronounced a sentence of deposition against ...
Side 14
... successful , awakened the jealousy of the emperor Anastasius ; and a war was kindled on the Dacian frontier , A. D. 505. by the protection which the Gothic king , in the vicissitude of human affairs , had granted to one of the ...
... successful , awakened the jealousy of the emperor Anastasius ; and a war was kindled on the Dacian frontier , A. D. 505. by the protection which the Gothic king , in the vicissitude of human affairs , had granted to one of the ...
Side 24
... success . The singular veneration shown to the first pope who had visited Constantinople was punished as a crime by his jealous monarch ; the artful or pe- remptory refusal of the Byzantine court might excuse an equal , and would ...
... success . The singular veneration shown to the first pope who had visited Constantinople was punished as a crime by his jealous monarch ; the artful or pe- remptory refusal of the Byzantine court might excuse an equal , and would ...
Side 35
... successful imitation of the Attic , or at least of the Asiatic , writers of ancient Greece . His facts are collected from the personal experience and free conversation of a soldier , a statesman , and a traveller ; his style continually ...
... successful imitation of the Attic , or at least of the Asiatic , writers of ancient Greece . His facts are collected from the personal experience and free conversation of a soldier , a statesman , and a traveller ; his style continually ...
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