The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 4: Complete in Eight VolumesG. Coure and lo. Poultry, 1825 |
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Side 147
... Clovis among the The Visigoths ( the subjects of Adolphus ) restrained , by subsequent laws , the prodigality of conjugal love . It was illegal for a husband to make any gift or set- tlement for the benefit of his wife during the first ...
... Clovis among the The Visigoths ( the subjects of Adolphus ) restrained , by subsequent laws , the prodigality of conjugal love . It was illegal for a husband to make any gift or set- tlement for the benefit of his wife during the first ...
Side 306
... Clovis . They massacred their hostages , as well as their captives : two hundred young maidens were tortured with exquisite and unrelenting rage ; their bodies were torn asunder by wild horses , or their bones were crushed under the ...
... Clovis . They massacred their hostages , as well as their captives : two hundred young maidens were tortured with exquisite and unrelenting rage ; their bodies were torn asunder by wild horses , or their bones were crushed under the ...
Side 414
... Clovis ; and the Saxon con- querors of Britain were reclaimed from their savage su- perstition by the missionaries of Rome . These barbarian proselytes displayed an ardent and successful zeal in the Philostorgius erroneously places this ...
... Clovis ; and the Saxon con- querors of Britain were reclaimed from their savage su- perstition by the missionaries of Rome . These barbarian proselytes displayed an ardent and successful zeal in the Philostorgius erroneously places this ...
Side 417
... Clovis and Charle- magne . The emulation of mankind was encouraged by the remembrance of a more perfect state ; and the flame of science was secretly kept alive , to warm and en- lighten the mature age of the western world . In the most ...
... Clovis and Charle- magne . The emulation of mankind was encouraged by the remembrance of a more perfect state ; and the flame of science was secretly kept alive , to warm and en- lighten the mature age of the western world . In the most ...
Side 419
... sometimes in dark hints , the general dispositions of the Catholics . The history of Clovis and Theodoric will suggest some particular facts . with the names of Pharoah and Holofernes ; the public 2 E 2 CHAP . XXXVII . 419 q ...
... sometimes in dark hints , the general dispositions of the Catholics . The history of Clovis and Theodoric will suggest some particular facts . with the names of Pharoah and Holofernes ; the public 2 E 2 CHAP . XXXVII . 419 q ...
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