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... soon as I returned to Bath I procured the second and third volumes of Howel's History of the World , which ex- hibit the Byzantine history on a larger scale . Mahomet and his Saracens soon fixed my attention ; and some instinct of ...
... soon as I returned to Bath I procured the second and third volumes of Howel's History of the World , which ex- hibit the Byzantine history on a larger scale . Mahomet and his Saracens soon fixed my attention ; and some instinct of ...
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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 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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... soon to claim , extraordinary donatives on every public occasion of danger or festivity . Elated by success , enervated by luxury , and raised above the level of subjects by their dangerous privileges , they soon became in- capable of ...
... soon to claim , extraordinary donatives on every public occasion of danger or festivity . Elated by success , enervated by luxury , and raised above the level of subjects by their dangerous privileges , they soon became in- capable of ...
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... soon disappointed by these vain youths , who displayed the indolent security of hereditary princes ; and a presumption that fortune would supply the place of merit and application . With - climate , and the severity of a winter march ...
... soon disappointed by these vain youths , who displayed the indolent security of hereditary princes ; and a presumption that fortune would supply the place of merit and application . With - climate , and the severity of a winter march ...
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