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Side xi
... tribes are depicted ; their importance must be my apology . I have not extended these labours generally beyond the first five volumes of this new edition ; they contain almost all that regards Christianity . In them too is seen that ...
... tribes are depicted ; their importance must be my apology . I have not extended these labours generally beyond the first five volumes of this new edition ; they contain almost all that regards Christianity . In them too is seen that ...
Side xiii
... tribes , information which I should vainly have sought elsewhere , has been afforded me by Schlö- zer's Northern History , Gatterer's Universal History , Adelung's Die Ausbreitung des Christenthums aus natürlichen Ursachen , von W. S. ...
... tribes , information which I should vainly have sought elsewhere , has been afforded me by Schlö- zer's Northern History , Gatterer's Universal History , Adelung's Die Ausbreitung des Christenthums aus natürlichen Ursachen , von W. S. ...
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... Tribes Numbers - • CH . X. THE EMPERORS DECIUS , GALLUS , EMILIANUS , VALERIAN , AND GALLIENUS . - THE GENERAL IRRUPTION OF THE BARBARIANS . -THE THIRTY TYRANTS . 248-268 . The Nature of the Subject The Emperor Philip • 299 300 249 ...
... Tribes Numbers - • CH . X. THE EMPERORS DECIUS , GALLUS , EMILIANUS , VALERIAN , AND GALLIENUS . - THE GENERAL IRRUPTION OF THE BARBARIANS . -THE THIRTY TYRANTS . 248-268 . The Nature of the Subject The Emperor Philip • 299 300 249 ...
Side 4
... tribes of Britons possessed valour without conduct , and the love of freedom without the spirit of union . They took up arms with savage fierce- ness ; they laid them down , or turned them against each other , with wild inconstancy ...
... tribes of Britons possessed valour without conduct , and the love of freedom without the spirit of union . They took up arms with savage fierce- ness ; they laid them down , or turned them against each other , with wild inconstancy ...
Side 5
... tribes , wishing to check the inroads of the Caledonians , had another rampart of earth made between Edinburgh and Dum- barton , parallel to which Septimius Severus , in 208 , built a stone wall . These monuments of Roman dominion in ...
... tribes , wishing to check the inroads of the Caledonians , had another rampart of earth made between Edinburgh and Dum- barton , parallel to which Septimius Severus , in 208 , built a stone wall . These monuments of Roman dominion in ...
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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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