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... troops who guarded his perfon and dig- nity ; and to employ in a diftant war against the Perfian monarch , the hardy veterans who had vanquished , on the banks of the Rhine , the fierceft nations of Germany . While Julian ufed the ...
... troops who guarded his perfon and dig- nity ; and to employ in a diftant war against the Perfian monarch , the hardy veterans who had vanquished , on the banks of the Rhine , the fierceft nations of Germany . While Julian ufed the ...
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... 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 , and perhaps hated ...
... 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 , and perhaps hated ...
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... troops began their march for the Alps ; and the detachments from the feveral garrifons moved towards their respective places of affembly . They advanced with difficulty through the trembling and affrighted crowds of provincials ; who ...
... troops began their march for the Alps ; and the detachments from the feveral garrifons moved towards their respective places of affembly . They advanced with difficulty through the trembling and affrighted crowds of provincials ; who ...
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... troops ; but they imprudently rejected the honeft and judicious advice of Julian ; who propofed that they fhould not march through Paris , and fug- gefted the danger and temptation of a laft inter- view . As foon as the approach of the ...
... troops ; but they imprudently rejected the honeft and judicious advice of Julian ; who propofed that they fhould not march through Paris , and fug- gefted the danger and temptation of a laft inter- view . As foon as the approach of the ...
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... troops were indulged in licentious feftivity . At the hour of midnight , the impetuous multitude , with fwords , and bowls , and torches , in their hands , rufhed into the fuburbs ; encompaffed the palace ' ; and , ? Moft probably the ...
... troops were indulged in licentious feftivity . At the hour of midnight , the impetuous multitude , with fwords , and bowls , and torches , in their hands , rufhed into the fuburbs ; encompaffed the palace ' ; and , ? Moft probably the ...
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