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... those arts which they had fo often practifed with fuccefs . They easily . difcovered , that his fimplicity was not exempt from affectation : the ridiculous epithets of an hairy favage , of an ape invested with the purple , were applied ...
... those arts which they had fo often practifed with fuccefs . They easily . difcovered , that his fimplicity was not exempt from affectation : the ridiculous epithets of an hairy favage , of an ape invested with the purple , were applied ...
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... 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 , and even ex- aggerated , his popular fame ...
... 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 , and even ex- aggerated , his popular fame ...
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... those mercenary troops heard with cold indifference the anti- quated names of the republic and of Rome . Attached , either from birth or long habit , to the climate and manners of Gaul , they loved and admired Julian ; they defpifed ...
... those mercenary troops heard with cold indifference the anti- quated names of the republic and of Rome . Attached , either from birth or long habit , to the climate and manners of Gaul , they loved and admired Julian ; they defpifed ...
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... those whom he acknowledged as the authors of his elevation . The faint propofal was impetuously filenced ; and the acclamations of " Julian Au- 66 guftus , continue to reign , by the authority of " the army , of the people , of the ...
... those whom he acknowledged as the authors of his elevation . The faint propofal was impetuously filenced ; and the acclamations of " Julian Au- 66 guftus , continue to reign , by the authority of " the army , of the people , of the ...
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... those magazines , each of which confifted of fix hundred thousand quarters of wheat , or rather flour , was a threatening evidence of the strength and numbers of the enemy , who prepared to furround him . But the Imperial legions were ...
... those magazines , each of which confifted of fix hundred thousand quarters of wheat , or rather flour , was a threatening evidence of the strength and numbers of the enemy , who prepared to furround him . But the Imperial legions were ...
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