The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireJ. J. Tourneisen, 1787 - 434 sider |
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... fense of intereft , to improve thofe eftates , with whose produce they may purchase additional pleasures . This operation , the particular effects of which are felt in every fociety , acted with much more diffufive energy in the Roman ...
... fense of intereft , to improve thofe eftates , with whose produce they may purchase additional pleasures . This operation , the particular effects of which are felt in every fociety , acted with much more diffufive energy in the Roman ...
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... fense of national honour , the prefence of danger , and the habit of command . They received laws and governors from the will of their fovereign , and trufted for their defence to a mercenary army . The posterity of their boldeft ...
... fense of national honour , the prefence of danger , and the habit of command . They received laws and governors from the will of their fovereign , and trufted for their defence to a mercenary army . The posterity of their boldeft ...
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... fense of their irrefiftible weight ; nor was it poffible to conceal from them , that the perfon of the fovereign , the authority of the fenate , the public treasure , and the feat of empire , were all in their hands . To divert the ...
... fense of their irrefiftible weight ; nor was it poffible to conceal from them , that the perfon of the fovereign , the authority of the fenate , the public treasure , and the feat of empire , were all in their hands . To divert the ...
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... fense of his merit and fervices , by appointing him his colleague in the confulship , and defraying from his own treasury the expence of that vain dignity : but as it was juftly apprehended , that if the foldiers beheld him with the ...
... fense of his merit and fervices , by appointing him his colleague in the confulship , and defraying from his own treasury the expence of that vain dignity : but as it was juftly apprehended , that if the foldiers beheld him with the ...
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... fense of loyalty among his troops ; but their reluctant profeffions of fidelity quickly vanished on the appearance of Maximin , who declared himself the friend and advocate of the military order , and was unanimously acknowledged ...
... fense of loyalty among his troops ; but their reluctant profeffions of fidelity quickly vanished on the appearance of Maximin , who declared himself the friend and advocate of the military order , and was unanimously acknowledged ...
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