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Side iv
... Avarice and Profusion of Justinian , Pernicious Savings , .. Remittances , Taxes ,. Monopolies ,. Venality , 41 42 43 46 46 48 48 51 53 ... 54 55 56 57 57 58 60 62 63 63 • 64 66 68 71 73 .... 75 76 77 77 .......... 78 ...... 79 A. D. ...
... Avarice and Profusion of Justinian , Pernicious Savings , .. Remittances , Taxes ,. Monopolies ,. Venality , 41 42 43 46 46 48 48 51 53 ... 54 55 56 57 57 58 60 62 63 63 • 64 66 68 71 73 .... 75 76 77 77 .......... 78 ...... 79 A. D. ...
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... avarice , which could be only excused by the hard necessity of his situation . He reigned , not as the mon- arch , but as the minister of a ferocious people , whose spirit was unbroken by slavery , and impatient of real or imaginary ...
... avarice , which could be only excused by the hard necessity of his situation . He reigned , not as the mon- arch , but as the minister of a ferocious people , whose spirit was unbroken by slavery , and impatient of real or imaginary ...
Side 30
... avarice of the king's nephew was publicly exposed , at first by the usurpation , and afterwards by the restitution of the estates which he had unjustly extorted from his Tuscan neighbors . Two hundred thousand Barbarians , formidable ...
... avarice of the king's nephew was publicly exposed , at first by the usurpation , and afterwards by the restitution of the estates which he had unjustly extorted from his Tuscan neighbors . Two hundred thousand Barbarians , formidable ...
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... avarice , and , as he complains , encouraged by impunity . In these honorable contests his spirit soared above the considera- tion of danger , and perhaps of prudence ; and we may learn from the example of Cato , that a character of ...
... avarice , and , as he complains , encouraged by impunity . In these honorable contests his spirit soared above the considera- tion of danger , and perhaps of prudence ; and we may learn from the example of Cato , that a character of ...
Side 53
... avarice to accumulate an immense treasure , may be excused by the apprehension of her husband's death , which could leave no alternative between ruin and the throne ; and fear as well as ambition might exasperate Theodora against two ...
... avarice to accumulate an immense treasure , may be excused by the apprehension of her husband's death , which could leave no alternative between ruin and the throne ; and fear as well as ambition might exasperate Theodora against two ...
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