The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1George Bell and Sons, 1891 |
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... gave an account , nothing was lost ; every thing bore useful fruit ; every thing announced the future historian , who would deduce from facts whatever the known offered to his natural sagacity , without attempting to supply or invent ...
... gave an account , nothing was lost ; every thing bore useful fruit ; every thing announced the future historian , who would deduce from facts whatever the known offered to his natural sagacity , without attempting to supply or invent ...
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... gave himself up wholly to his great work . Study and reading opened to him a wider horizon , and insensibly expanded his first plan . The death of his father , and the settlement of his affairs , the duties of the House of Commons , of ...
... gave himself up wholly to his great work . Study and reading opened to him a wider horizon , and insensibly expanded his first plan . The death of his father , and the settlement of his affairs , the duties of the House of Commons , of ...
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... gave birth to a crowd of contemptible historians , whose memory has been rescued from oblivion , and exposed to ridicule , in a very lively piece of criticism of Lucian . The poorest rank of soldiers possessed above 401. sterling ...
... gave birth to a crowd of contemptible historians , whose memory has been rescued from oblivion , and exposed to ridicule , in a very lively piece of criticism of Lucian . The poorest rank of soldiers possessed above 401. sterling ...
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... gave this rank to any well - educated Roman who joined him . He found Horace at Athens , and had known and esteemed him before at Rome . The emperors were still less particular , and more guided by private views in their choice ; the ...
... gave this rank to any well - educated Roman who joined him . He found Horace at Athens , and had known and esteemed him before at Rome . The emperors were still less particular , and more guided by private views in their choice ; the ...
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... gave them the command of a troop ( ala ) . Many knights obtained it immediately , in the hope of entering the senate as " tribuni laticlavii . " ( Dion . Čass . p . 2209 , and Fabricius ad h . 1. ) Others were appointed præfects , two ...
... gave them the command of a troop ( ala ) . Many knights obtained it immediately , in the hope of entering the senate as " tribuni laticlavii . " ( Dion . Čass . p . 2209 , and Fabricius ad h . 1. ) Others were appointed præfects , two ...
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