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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... merit , or favor , was invested with a benefice , the primitive name , and most simple form , of the feudal Fossessions . These gifts might be resumed at the pleasure of the sovereign ; and his feeble prerogative derived some support ...
... merit , or favor , was invested with a benefice , the primitive name , and most simple form , of the feudal Fossessions . These gifts might be resumed at the pleasure of the sovereign ; and his feeble prerogative derived some support ...
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... merit of the fiction to the idle fancy of a monk or a sophist . According to another story , Proclus applied sulphur to the destruction of the Gothic fleet ; in a modern imagination , the name of sulphur is instantly connected with the ...
... merit of the fiction to the idle fancy of a monk or a sophist . According to another story , Proclus applied sulphur to the destruction of the Gothic fleet ; in a modern imagination , the name of sulphur is instantly connected with the ...
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... merit , and ignorant of the force , of his antagonist , he dreaded a decisive battle in a distant country , from whence not a Persian might return to relate the melancholy tale . The great king hast- ened to repass the Euphrates ; and ...
... merit , and ignorant of the force , of his antagonist , he dreaded a decisive battle in a distant country , from whence not a Persian might return to relate the melancholy tale . The great king hast- ened to repass the Euphrates ; and ...
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