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Side 17
... Europe , the last and fatal stroke in the fall of the Roman empire . The inclining scale was decided in his favour by the death of Apo- caucus , the just , though singular , retribution of his crimes . A crowd of nobles or plebeians ...
... Europe , the last and fatal stroke in the fall of the Roman empire . The inclining scale was decided in his favour by the death of Apo- caucus , the just , though singular , retribution of his crimes . A crowd of nobles or plebeians ...
Side 21
... Europe , Cantacuzene pre- vailed in the third contest in which he had been involved ; and the young emperor , driven from the sea and land , was compelled to take shelter among the Latins of the takes up arms against 1353 . isle of ...
... Europe , Cantacuzene pre- vailed in the third contest in which he had been involved ; and the young emperor , driven from the sea and land , was compelled to take shelter among the Latins of the takes up arms against 1353 . isle of ...
Side 32
... Europe . - Danger of Constantinople and the Greek empire . FROM the petty quarrels of a city and her suburbs , from the cowardice and discord of the falling Greeks , I shall now ascend to the victorious Turks , whose domestic slavery ...
... Europe . - Danger of Constantinople and the Greek empire . FROM the petty quarrels of a city and her suburbs , from the cowardice and discord of the falling Greeks , I shall now ascend to the victorious Turks , whose domestic slavery ...
Side 34
... Europe . The ambi- tion of Temugin condescended to employ the arts of su- perstition ; and it was from a naked prophet , who could ascend to heaven on a white horse , that he accepted the title of Zingis , the most great ; and a divine ...
... Europe . The ambi- tion of Temugin condescended to employ the arts of su- perstition ; and it was from a naked prophet , who could ascend to heaven on a white horse , that he accepted the title of Zingis , the most great ; and a divine ...
Side 35
... Europe , who defended nonsense by cruelty , might have been confounded by the example of a bar- barian , who anticipated the lessons of philosophy , and established by his laws a system of pure theism and per- fect toleration . His ...
... Europe , who defended nonsense by cruelty , might have been confounded by the example of a bar- barian , who anticipated the lessons of philosophy , and established by his laws a system of pure theism and per- fect toleration . His ...
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