The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireJ. J. Tourneisen, 1787 - 434 sider |
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... liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefac- tors , the thirft of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters . The praises of СНАР . I. Alexander , tranfmitted by a fucceffion of A 4 OF THE ROMAN ...
... liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefac- tors , the thirft of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters . The praises of СНАР . I. Alexander , tranfmitted by a fucceffion of A 4 OF THE ROMAN ...
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... liberal birth and education ; but the common foldiers , like the mercenary troops of modern Europe , were drawn from the meaneft , and very frequently from the most profligate , of mankind . " • That public virtue which among the ...
... liberal birth and education ; but the common foldiers , like the mercenary troops of modern Europe , were drawn from the meaneft , and very frequently from the most profligate , of mankind . " • That public virtue which among the ...
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... liberal com- putation will not allow us to fix the entire Amount of the establishment by fea and by land at more than four hundred and fifty thousand men : a military power , which , however formidable it may feem , was equalled by a ...
... liberal com- putation will not allow us to fix the entire Amount of the establishment by fea and by land at more than four hundred and fifty thousand men : a military power , which , however formidable it may feem , was equalled by a ...
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... liberal education , who was at once a ftranger to the Greek and to the Latin language ! It was by fuch inftitutions that the nations of Slaves . the empire infenfibly melted away into the Roman name and people . But there ftill remained ...
... liberal education , who was at once a ftranger to the Greek and to the Latin language ! It was by fuch inftitutions that the nations of Slaves . the empire infenfibly melted away into the Roman name and people . But there ftill remained ...
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... liberal appellations of legions and myriads " ; we may venture to pronounce , that the proportion of slaves , who were valued as property , was more confiderable than that of fervants , who can be computed only as an expence " . The ...
... liberal appellations of legions and myriads " ; we may venture to pronounce , that the proportion of slaves , who were valued as property , was more confiderable than that of fervants , who can be computed only as an expence " . The ...
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