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Side 8
... . These post - waggons are often mentioned in the Code , and were supposed to carry fifteen hundred pounds weight . See Vales . ad Ammian . xx . 4 . ed , XXII . ed , in lively colours , the difgrace 8 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
... . These post - waggons are often mentioned in the Code , and were supposed to carry fifteen hundred pounds weight . See Vales . ad Ammian . xx . 4 . ed , XXII . ed , in lively colours , the difgrace 8 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
Side 9
Edward Gibbon. XXII . ed , in lively colours , the difgrace of the Cæfar , CHAP . the oppreffion of the Gallic army , and the feeble vices of the tyrant of Asia . The fervants of Conftantius were astonished and alarmed by the progrefs of ...
Edward Gibbon. XXII . ed , in lively colours , the difgrace of the Cæfar , CHAP . the oppreffion of the Gallic army , and the feeble vices of the tyrant of Asia . The fervants of Conftantius were astonished and alarmed by the progrefs of ...
Side 12
... directly charges the apoftate with prefumption , madnefs , and impious rebellion , ada , avOLE arica . Orat . iii . p . 67 . feffions XXII . feffions of princes . His lively and active 12 THE DECLINE AND FALL His Proteftations of Innocence.
... directly charges the apoftate with prefumption , madnefs , and impious rebellion , ada , avOLE arica . Orat . iii . p . 67 . feffions XXII . feffions of princes . His lively and active 12 THE DECLINE AND FALL His Proteftations of Innocence.
Side 13
Edward Gibbon. XXII . feffions of princes . His lively and active mind CHAP . was fufceptible of the various impreffions of hope and fear , of gratitude and revenge , of duty and of ambition , of the love of fame and of the fear of ...
Edward Gibbon. XXII . feffions of princes . His lively and active mind CHAP . was fufceptible of the various impreffions of hope and fear , of gratitude and revenge , of duty and of ambition , of the love of fame and of the fear of ...
Side 38
... lively metaphor of Ariftotle 48 , feldom fails to afcend the throne of a defpot . The throne of Julian , which the death of Conftantius fixed on an independant bafis , was the feat of reafon , of virtue , and perhaps of vanity . He ...
... lively metaphor of Ariftotle 48 , feldom fails to afcend the throne of a defpot . The throne of Julian , which the death of Conftantius fixed on an independant bafis , was the feat of reafon , of virtue , and perhaps of vanity . He ...
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