The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 3Cadell & Davies; J. Johnson; F. & C. Rivington; ... [and 32 others], 1807 |
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... confidence , this decifive teftimony , which gives a circumference of ten or twelve miles . The extravagant compu tation of Tournefort ( Lettre XI . ) of thirty - four or thirty miles , without including Scutari , is a ftrange departure ...
... confidence , this decifive teftimony , which gives a circumference of ten or twelve miles . The extravagant compu tation of Tournefort ( Lettre XI . ) of thirty - four or thirty miles , without including Scutari , is a ftrange departure ...
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... should frequently have been perplexed amidst the copious details of the Code , and the circum- Rantial minutenefs of the Notitia . 3 ftrate ftrate whom they honoured with fuch unbounded CHAP . confidence 44 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
... should frequently have been perplexed amidst the copious details of the Code , and the circum- Rantial minutenefs of the Notitia . 3 ftrate ftrate whom they honoured with fuch unbounded CHAP . confidence 44 THE DECLINE AND FALL.
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Edward Gibbon. ftrate whom they honoured with fuch unbounded CHAP . confidence 10 ° His appointments were fuitable XVII . to his dignity 101 ; and if avarice was his ruling paffion , he enjoyed frequent opportunities of col- lecting a ...
Edward Gibbon. ftrate whom they honoured with fuch unbounded CHAP . confidence 10 ° His appointments were fuitable XVII . to his dignity 101 ; and if avarice was his ruling paffion , he enjoyed frequent opportunities of col- lecting a ...
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... confidence of the prince . Their XVII . courts were deferted , their number , which had once fluctuated between twelve and eighteen 106 , was gradually reduced to two or three , and their important functions were confined to the expen ...
... confidence of the prince . Their XVII . courts were deferted , their number , which had once fluctuated between twelve and eighteen 106 , was gradually reduced to two or three , and their important functions were confined to the expen ...
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... confidence , will infenfibly acquire over a feeble mind that afcendant which harfh wisdom and uncomplying virtue can seldom ob- tain . The degenerate grandfons of Theodofius , who were invifible to their fubjects , and con- temptible to ...
... confidence , will infenfibly acquire over a feeble mind that afcendant which harfh wisdom and uncomplying virtue can seldom ob- tain . The degenerate grandfons of Theodofius , who were invifible to their fubjects , and con- temptible to ...
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