The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireJ. J. Tourneisen, 1787 - 434 sider |
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... Pleasures of Commodus His Ignorance and low Sports Hunting of wild Beafts 116 ib . 118 ib . 119 120 122 ib . 123 Commodus difplays his Skill in the Amphitheatre 124 Acts as a Gladiator 125 His infamy and Extravagance 126 Confpiracy of ...
... Pleasures of Commodus His Ignorance and low Sports Hunting of wild Beafts 116 ib . 118 ib . 119 120 122 ib . 123 Commodus difplays his Skill in the Amphitheatre 124 Acts as a Gladiator 125 His infamy and Extravagance 126 Confpiracy of ...
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Edward Gibbon. I. CHAP . fucceffors . Engaged in the pursuit of pleasure , or in the exercise of tyranny , the first Cæfars feldom shewed themselves to the armies , or to the provinces ; nor were they difpofed to fuffer , that those ...
Edward Gibbon. I. CHAP . fucceffors . Engaged in the pursuit of pleasure , or in the exercise of tyranny , the first Cæfars feldom shewed themselves to the armies , or to the provinces ; nor were they difpofed to fuffer , that those ...
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... pleasure or by intereft , haftened to enjoy the advantages of victory ; and we may remark , that , about forty years after the reduction of Afia , eighty thousand Romans were maffacred in one day , by the cruel orders of Mithridates ...
... pleasure or by intereft , haftened to enjoy the advantages of victory ; and we may remark , that , about forty years after the reduction of Afia , eighty thousand Romans were maffacred in one day , by the cruel orders of Mithridates ...
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... pleasures of the meaneft citizen . The last mentioned of those edifices deferve our peculiar attention . The boldness of the enter- prife , the folidity of the execution , and the uses to which they were fubfervient , rank the aque ...
... pleasures of the meaneft citizen . The last mentioned of those edifices deferve our peculiar attention . The boldness of the enter- prife , the folidity of the execution , and the uses to which they were fubfervient , rank the aque ...
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... pleasures of the rich , and the fubfiftence of the poor . The elegant treatife of Columella defcribes the advanced state of the Spanish husban- dry , under the reign of Tiberius ; and it may be observed , that those famines which fo ...
... pleasures of the rich , and the fubfiftence of the poor . The elegant treatife of Columella defcribes the advanced state of the Spanish husban- dry , under the reign of Tiberius ; and it may be observed , that those famines which fo ...
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