The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 5T. Cadell, 1828 |
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Side v
... successful author has much more to lose than he can hope to gain ; that I am now descending into the vale of years ; and that the most respectable of my countrymen , the men whom I aspire to imitate , have resigned the pen of history ...
... successful author has much more to lose than he can hope to gain ; that I am now descending into the vale of years ; and that the most respectable of my countrymen , the men whom I aspire to imitate , have resigned the pen of history ...
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... success of his ambition . But the palace of Constantinople was ruled by female influence , and agitated by female passions : and Ve- rina , the widow of Leo , claiming his empire as her own , pronounced a sentence of deposition against ...
... success of his ambition . But the palace of Constantinople was ruled by female influence , and agitated by female passions : and Ve- rina , the widow of Leo , claiming his empire as her own , pronounced a sentence of deposition against ...
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... successful , awakened the jealousy of the emperor Anastasius ; and a war was kindled on the Dacian frontier , by the protection which the Gothic king , in the vicissitude of human affairs , had granted to one of the descendants of ...
... successful , awakened the jealousy of the emperor Anastasius ; and a war was kindled on the Dacian frontier , by the protection which the Gothic king , in the vicissitude of human affairs , had granted to one of the descendants of ...
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... success . The singu- lar veneration shown to the first pope who had visited Constantinople was punished as a crime by his jealous monarch ; the artful or peremptory refusal of the Byzantine court might excuse an equal , and would ...
... success . The singu- lar veneration shown to the first pope who had visited Constantinople was punished as a crime by his jealous monarch ; the artful or peremptory refusal of the Byzantine court might excuse an equal , and would ...
Side 50
... successful imitation of the Attic , or at least of the Asiatic writers of ancient Greece . His facts are collected from the personal experience and free conversation of a soldier , a states- man , and a traveller ; his style continually ...
... successful imitation of the Attic , or at least of the Asiatic writers of ancient Greece . His facts are collected from the personal experience and free conversation of a soldier , a states- man , and a traveller ; his style continually ...
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