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... Gothic tumult , to conceal his private designs of ambition and revenge . The guilty soul of Rufinus was alarmed by the approach of a warrior and a rival , whose enmity he deserved ; he computed , with increasing terror , the narrow ...
... Gothic tumult , to conceal his private designs of ambition and revenge . The guilty soul of Rufinus was alarmed by the approach of a warrior and a rival , whose enmity he deserved ; he computed , with increasing terror , the narrow ...
Side 30
... Gothic nation was in arms . The barbarian auxiliaries erected their in- dependent standard ; and boldly avowed the hostile ¶ The lessons of Theodosius , or rather Claudian , ( 4 Cons . Honor . 214—418 . ) might compose a fine ...
... Gothic nation was in arms . The barbarian auxiliaries erected their in- dependent standard ; and boldly avowed the hostile ¶ The lessons of Theodosius , or rather Claudian , ( 4 Cons . Honor . 214—418 . ) might compose a fine ...
Side 31
... Gothic name , were irregularly spread from the woody shores of Dalmatia , to the walls of Con- stantinople . The interruption , or at least the diminu- tion , of the subsidy , which the Goths had received from the prudent liberality of ...
... Gothic name , were irregularly spread from the woody shores of Dalmatia , to the walls of Con- stantinople . The interruption , or at least the diminu- tion , of the subsidy , which the Goths had received from the prudent liberality of ...
Side 32
... Gothic arms : but the want of wis- dom and valour was supplied by the strength of the city ; and the fortifications , both of the sea and land , might securely brave the impotent and random darts of the barbarians . Alaric disdained to ...
... Gothic arms : but the want of wis- dom and valour was supplied by the strength of the city ; and the fortifications , both of the sea and land , might securely brave the impotent and random darts of the barbarians . Alaric disdained to ...
Side 33
... Gothic herald , they were easily persuaded to deliver the greatest part of their wealth , as the ransom of the city of Minerva , and its in- ' Compare Herodotus , ( lib . 7. c . 176. ) and Livy , ( 36. 25. ) The narrow en- trance of ...
... Gothic herald , they were easily persuaded to deliver the greatest part of their wealth , as the ransom of the city of Minerva , and its in- ' Compare Herodotus , ( lib . 7. c . 176. ) and Livy , ( 36. 25. ) The narrow en- trance of ...
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