The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: In Eight Volumes, Volum 2Baudry's European Library, 1840 |
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... Barbarians of Europe might justly tremble at the precipitate fall of the Gothic monarchy . In this inquiry I shall unfold the events that rescued our ancestors of Britain , and our neighbours of Gaul , from the civil and religious yoke ...
... Barbarians of Europe might justly tremble at the precipitate fall of the Gothic monarchy . In this inquiry I shall unfold the events that rescued our ancestors of Britain , and our neighbours of Gaul , from the civil and religious yoke ...
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... Barbarians . They should be told that the mystery of the Greek fire had been revealed by an angel to the first and greatest of the Constantines , with a sacred injunc tion , that this gift of heaven , this peculiar blessing of the ...
... Barbarians . They should be told that the mystery of the Greek fire had been revealed by an angel to the first and greatest of the Constantines , with a sacred injunc tion , that this gift of heaven , this peculiar blessing of the ...
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... Barbarians of the East ( 74 ) . In the bloody conflict of the Ommiades and Abbassides , the Greeks had stolen the opportunity of avenging their wrongs and against the enlarging their limits . But a severe retribution was exacted by ...
... Barbarians of the East ( 74 ) . In the bloody conflict of the Ommiades and Abbassides , the Greeks had stolen the opportunity of avenging their wrongs and against the enlarging their limits . But a severe retribution was exacted by ...
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... Barbarians : they meditated the restoration of the Greek emperors ; but the attempt was treasonable , and the suc- cour remote and precarious ( 86 ) . Their distress appeared to re- ceive some aggravation from the death of their ...
... Barbarians : they meditated the restoration of the Greek emperors ; but the attempt was treasonable , and the suc- cour remote and precarious ( 86 ) . Their distress appeared to re- ceive some aggravation from the death of their ...
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... Barbarians . The emperor embraced the more generous resolution of defending , in a siege and battle , the country of his ancestors . When the ar- mies drew near , the front of the Mahometan line appeared to a Roman eye more closely ...
... Barbarians . The emperor embraced the more generous resolution of defending , in a siege and battle , the country of his ancestors . When the ar- mies drew near , the front of the Mahometan line appeared to a Roman eye more closely ...
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