The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 3AMS Press, 1974 |
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... tribes , more savage than themselves . The original principle of motion was concealed in the remote countries of the North ; and the curious observation of the pastoral life of the Scythians , * or Tartars , will illustrate the latent ...
... tribes , more savage than themselves . The original principle of motion was concealed in the remote countries of the North ; and the curious observation of the pastoral life of the Scythians , * or Tartars , will illustrate the latent ...
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... tribes , the spirit of emigration and conquest . The connexion between the people and their territory is of so frail a texture that it may be broken by the slightest accident . The camp , and not the soil , is the native country of the ...
... tribes , the spirit of emigration and conquest . The connexion between the people and their territory is of so frail a texture that it may be broken by the slightest accident . The camp , and not the soil , is the native country of the ...
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... tribes , to support the dignity of their national monarch and of their peculiar chief ; and each of those contributions amounts to the tythe both of their property and of their spoil . A Tartar sovereign enjoys the tenth part of the ...
... tribes , to support the dignity of their national monarch and of their peculiar chief ; and each of those contributions amounts to the tythe both of their property and of their spoil . A Tartar sovereign enjoys the tenth part of the ...
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CHAPTER XXV | 1 |
The cause of the Gothic | 7 |
The two Eastern expeditions of Stilicho and his Illyric policy | 12 |
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