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... discovered truth for himself , he became , at sixteen years of age , a Roman Catholic . Various circumstances prepared his conversion ; it was completed by Bossuet's History of the Protestant Variations : " at least , " said he , " I ...
... discovered truth for himself , he became , at sixteen years of age , a Roman Catholic . Various circumstances prepared his conversion ; it was completed by Bossuet's History of the Protestant Variations : " at least , " said he , " I ...
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... discovered in Gibbon's habit of composition , in the impediments which he had to avoid , and the models which he had preferred . His outset " Three times , " he says , was laborious . " did I compose the first chapter , and twice the ...
... discovered in Gibbon's habit of composition , in the impediments which he had to avoid , and the models which he had preferred . His outset " Three times , " he says , was laborious . " did I compose the first chapter , and twice the ...
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... discovered and illustrated by M. de Beaufort , République Romaine , 1. 2 , c . 2 . As in the instance of Horace and Agricola . This appears to have been a defect in the Roman discipline , which Hadrian endeavoured to remedy , by ...
... discovered and illustrated by M. de Beaufort , République Romaine , 1. 2 , c . 2 . As in the instance of Horace and Agricola . This appears to have been a defect in the Roman discipline , which Hadrian endeavoured to remedy , by ...
Side 33
... discovered near Mequi- nez , the residence of the barbarian whom we condescend to style the emperor of Morocco ; but it does not appear that his more southern dominions , Morocco itself , and Segel- messa , were ever comprehended within ...
... discovered near Mequi- nez , the residence of the barbarian whom we condescend to style the emperor of Morocco ; but it does not appear that his more southern dominions , Morocco itself , and Segel- messa , were ever comprehended within ...
Side 56
... discovered , on a very melancholy occasion , that four hundred slaves were maintained in a single palace of Rome.§ The same number of four hundred belonged to an estate which an African widow , of a very private condition , resigned to ...
... discovered , on a very melancholy occasion , that four hundred slaves were maintained in a single palace of Rome.§ The same number of four hundred belonged to an estate which an African widow , of a very private condition , resigned to ...
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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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