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... hands of a Turkish pasha . The Nile flows down the country , about five hundred miles from the tropic of Cancer to the Mediterranean , and marks , on either side , the extent of fertility by the measure of its inundations . Cyrene ...
... hands of a Turkish pasha . The Nile flows down the country , about five hundred miles from the tropic of Cancer to the Mediterranean , and marks , on either side , the extent of fertility by the measure of its inundations . Cyrene ...
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... hand of Commodus , and obliged to seal their flattery with their blood . " 1 He now His infamy disdained the ... hands , but that he would never behold the son of Marcus prostituting his person and dignity . Notwithstanding his ...
... hand of Commodus , and obliged to seal their flattery with their blood . " 1 He now His infamy disdained the ... hands , but that he would never behold the son of Marcus prostituting his person and dignity . Notwithstanding his ...
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... hands of Tetricus , and destroyed the proud monarchy which Zenobia had erected in the East on the ruins of the ... hand , forty - eight Sarmatians , and in several subsequent engagements nine hundred and fifty . This heroic valour was ...
... hands of Tetricus , and destroyed the proud monarchy which Zenobia had erected in the East on the ruins of the ... hand , forty - eight Sarmatians , and in several subsequent engagements nine hundred and fifty . This heroic valour was ...
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A D | xxxvii |
Prefatory Note | xxxix |
Preface to the Fourth Volume of the Quarto Edition | xlv |
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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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