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... possessed riches equal to those of Cleander . The fortune of Pallas amounted , however , to up- wards of five and twenty hundred thousand pounds - ter millies . 25 Dion , 1. lxxii . p . 1218 [ 12 ] . Herodian , 1. i . p . 29 [ 12 ] ...
... possessed riches equal to those of Cleander . The fortune of Pallas amounted , however , to up- wards of five and twenty hundred thousand pounds - ter millies . 25 Dion , 1. lxxii . p . 1218 [ 12 ] . Herodian , 1. i . p . 29 [ 12 ] ...
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... possessed the arms and treasure of the state ; whilst the senate , neither elected by the people , nor guarded by the military force , nor animated by public spirit , rested its declining authority on the frail and crumbling basis of ...
... possessed the arms and treasure of the state ; whilst the senate , neither elected by the people , nor guarded by the military force , nor animated by public spirit , rested its declining authority on the frail and crumbling basis of ...
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... possessed of moral perfections.14 From either the blind or the intelligent operation of this infinite Time , which bears but too near an affinity with the Chaos of the Greeks , the two secondary but active principles of the universe ...
... possessed of moral perfections.14 From either the blind or the intelligent operation of this infinite Time , which bears but too near an affinity with the Chaos of the Greeks , the two secondary but active principles of the universe ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1914 |
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