The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 3Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994 - 1352 Seiten A history of the Roman and Byzantine Empires, covering a period of thirteen centuries from the age of the Antonines to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks. -- Dust jacket. |
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... prince is the property of his people , resigned himself to the enjoyment of the innocent but trifling pleasures of a luxuri- ous court . The natural disposition of Theodosius was hasty and choleric ; and in a station where none could ...
... prince is the property of his people , resigned himself to the enjoyment of the innocent but trifling pleasures of a luxuri- ous court . The natural disposition of Theodosius was hasty and choleric ; and in a station where none could ...
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... prince , " says Montesquieu , " who is actuated by the hopes and fears of religion may be compared to a lion , docile only to the voice , and tractable to the hand , of his keeper . " 100 The motions of the royal animal will there- fore ...
... prince , " says Montesquieu , " who is actuated by the hopes and fears of religion may be compared to a lion , docile only to the voice , and tractable to the hand , of his keeper . " 100 The motions of the royal animal will there- fore ...
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... prince , and to exhaust what yet remained of the treasures of the republic . Elated , however , with this imagi- " " Cum in Constantino inconstantiam ... execrarentur " ( Sidonius Apollinaris , 1. v . Epist . 9 , p . 139 , edit . secund ...
... prince , and to exhaust what yet remained of the treasures of the republic . Elated , however , with this imagi- " " Cum in Constantino inconstantiam ... execrarentur " ( Sidonius Apollinaris , 1. v . Epist . 9 , p . 139 , edit . secund ...
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