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... mind was prepared to receive the fubtle poifon of those artful fycophants , who coloured their mifchiev- ous designs with the fairest appearances of truth and candour . Inftead of depreciating the me- rits of Julian , they acknowledged ...
... mind was prepared to receive the fubtle poifon of those artful fycophants , who coloured their mifchiev- ous designs with the fairest appearances of truth and candour . Inftead of depreciating the me- rits of Julian , they acknowledged ...
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... minds for the most daring acts of fedition ; and by the connivance of their tribunes , a fea- fonable libel was fecretly difperfed , which paint- 6 He granted them the permiffion of the curfus clavularis , or cla- bularis . These post ...
... minds for the most daring acts of fedition ; and by the connivance of their tribunes , a fea- fonable libel was fecretly difperfed , which paint- 6 He granted them the permiffion of the curfus clavularis , or cla- bularis . These post ...
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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 ...
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... mind , it infenfibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity . His em- baffy to Conftan- tius . To moderate the zeal of his party , to protect the perfons of his enemies ** , to defeat and to despise the fecret enterprises ...
... mind , it infenfibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity . His em- baffy to Conftan- tius . To moderate the zeal of his party , to protect the perfons of his enemies ** , to defeat and to despise the fecret enterprises ...
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... . Libanius , with favage fury , infults Nebridius , applauds the foldiers , and almost cenfures the humanity of Julian ( Orat . Parent . c . 53. p . 278. ) . virtues virtues which he had inftilled into the mind of C 24 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
... . Libanius , with favage fury , infults Nebridius , applauds the foldiers , and almost cenfures the humanity of Julian ( Orat . Parent . c . 53. p . 278. ) . virtues virtues which he had inftilled into the mind of C 24 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1853 |
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