The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireJ. O. Robinson, 1830 - 1303 sider |
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... soon as this was accomplished , he returned to England , chiefly for the purpose of publishing the three last volumes , but also to renew his intercourse with his former friends , and especially with Lord Sheffield and his family . He ...
... soon as this was accomplished , he returned to England , chiefly for the purpose of publishing the three last volumes , but also to renew his intercourse with his former friends , and especially with Lord Sheffield and his family . He ...
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... soon repelled the invaders , and protected the unwarlike natives of those sequestered regions . The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest . The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with ...
... soon repelled the invaders , and protected the unwarlike natives of those sequestered regions . The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest . The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with ...
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... soon as their galleys ex- ceeded two , or at the most three , ranks of oars , they were suited rather for vain pomp than for real ser- vice . Augustus himself , in the victory of Actium , had seen the superiority of his own light ...
... soon as their galleys ex- ceeded two , or at the most three , ranks of oars , they were suited rather for vain pomp than for real ser- vice . Augustus himself , in the victory of Actium , had seen the superiority of his own light ...
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... soon contributed to the ruin of public freedom . Under a democratical government , the citizens ex- ercise the powers of sovereignty ; and those powers will be first abused , and afterwards lost , if they are committed to an unwieldy ...
... soon contributed to the ruin of public freedom . Under a democratical government , the citizens ex- ercise the powers of sovereignty ; and those powers will be first abused , and afterwards lost , if they are committed to an unwieldy ...
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... soon imi- tated the vanquished nations in the arts of flattery ; and the imperious spirit of the first Cæsar too easily consented to assume , during his life - time , a place among the tutelar deities of Rome . The milder temper of his ...
... soon imi- tated the vanquished nations in the arts of flattery ; and the imperious spirit of the first Cæsar too easily consented to assume , during his life - time , a place among the tutelar deities of Rome . The milder temper of his ...
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