The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 8John Murray, 1903 |
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Edward Gibbon. man must be founded on his power and resolution to punish his enemies and recompense his friends . His first military league was ratified by the simple rites of sacrificing an horse and tasting of a running stream ...
Edward Gibbon. man must be founded on his power and resolution to punish his enemies and recompense his friends . His first military league was ratified by the simple rites of sacrificing an horse and tasting of a running stream ...
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... enemy . But it is the religion of Zingis that best deserves our wonder and applause . " The Catholic inquisitors of Europe , who defended nonsense by cruelty , might have been confounded by the example of a barbarian , who anticipated ...
... enemy . But it is the religion of Zingis that best deserves our wonder and applause . " The Catholic inquisitors of Europe , who defended nonsense by cruelty , might have been confounded by the example of a barbarian , who anticipated ...
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... enemies . His invasion was supported by the revolt of an hundred thousand Khitans , who guarded the frontier : yet he listened to a treaty ; and a princess of China , three thousand horses , five hundred youths and as many virgins , and ...
... enemies . His invasion was supported by the revolt of an hundred thousand Khitans , who guarded the frontier : yet he listened to a treaty ; and a princess of China , three thousand horses , five hundred youths and as many virgins , and ...
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... enemies ; he withdrew from the scene of danger , and distributed his troops in the frontier towns ; trusting that the barbarians , invincible in the field , would be repulsed by the length and difficulty of so many regular sieges . But ...
... enemies ; he withdrew from the scene of danger , and distributed his troops in the frontier towns ; trusting that the barbarians , invincible in the field , would be repulsed by the length and difficulty of so many regular sieges . But ...
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... enemies of mankind , except the word assassin , which , in the most odious sense , has been adopted in the languages of Europe . The extinction of the Abbassides cannot be indifferent to the spectators of their greatness and decline ...
... enemies of mankind , except the word assassin , which , in the most odious sense , has been adopted in the languages of Europe . The extinction of the Abbassides cannot be indifferent to the spectators of their greatness and decline ...
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